Female size and fitness in the leaf-cutter bee Megachile apicalis

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-282

  Kim, Jong Yoon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood cell size; Egg size; Female size; Fitness; Leaf cutter bee; Megachile apicalis; Megachilidae; Nest usurpation; Realized fecundity; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FECUNDITY; FEMALE SIZE; FITNESS; LEAF-CUTTER BEE;

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILE; MEGACHILE APICALIS; MEGACHILIDAE;

EID: 0030866301     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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