Columbus surpassed: Biophysical aspects of how stingless bees place an egg upright on their liquid food

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 330-333

  Velthuis, B J ^a   Velthuis, H H W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; BIOPHYSICS; EGG; EGG LAYING; FOOD; LARVA; LIQUID; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0031857867     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050509     Document Type: Article

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