A stingless bee nesting inside ant-gardens in French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 489-492

  Corbara, B ^a   Dejan, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Ant gardens; Meliponini; Nesting site selection; Paratrigona

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032359319     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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