Sex ratio and sex allocation in sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 98-115

  Yanega, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

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FEMALE BIAS;

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