Pear and plum pollination: Honey bees, bumble bees of both?

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 423, Issue , 1996, Pages 83-90

  Calzoni, G L ^a   Speranza, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera L.; Bombus terrestris L.; Prunus salicina lindley; Pyrus communis L.

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; PRUNUS SALICINA; PYRUS; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0010682908     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1996.423.10     Document Type: Article

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