Honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), of the Drakensberg mountains in relation to neighbouring populations

African Entomology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-41

  Radloff, S E ^a   Hepburn, H R ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

A.m. capensis; Apis mellifera scutellata; Hybrids; Montane bees; Morphometrics

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE; HYBRID; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHEROMONE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SIZE;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0032739083     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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