Economic motivation for plant species preferences of pollen-collecting bumble bees

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-219

  Rasheed, Salman A ^b   Harder, Lawrence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bombus; currency; pollen collection; preference; protein

Indexed keywords

BUMBLEBEE; FORAGING; PLANT PREFERENCE; POLLEN COLLECTION;

APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030617662     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.t01-1-00059.x     Document Type: Article

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