The pore in the hard conical Apis cerana drone capping results from a spinning process

Apidologie

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 513-519

  Boecking, Otto ^a   Rosenkranz, Peter ^b   Sasaki, Masami ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apis cerana; Cocoon; Drone

Indexed keywords

APIS CERANA; APIS KOSCHEVNIKOVI;

EID: 0008588010     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19990606     Document Type: Article

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