Bee health report: Varroa in South Africa

Bee World

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 171-174

  Allsopp, Mike ^a   Govan, Vandana ^b   Davison, Sean ^b  

^a PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; VARROA;

EID: 0031327585     PISSN: 0005772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.1997.11099361     Document Type: Article

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