The honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), of woodland savanna of southeastern Africa

African Entomology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-27

  Radloff, S E ^a   Hepburn, H R ^a   Villet, M H ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

honeybee; morphometrics; populations; sting pheromones

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031027451     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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