Competition between pear flowers, flowering weeds and other fruit trees for honeybee pollination

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 475, Issue , 1998, Pages 417-426

  Benedek, P ^a   Beres I ^a   Nyeki J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Sour cherry; Stellaria media; Taraxacum officinale

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; PRUNUS CERASUS; PYRUS; STELLARIA MEDIA; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 0012714439     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.475.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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