Nutritive value and apparent digestibility of bee-collected and bee- stored pollen in the stingless bee, Scaptotrigona postica Latr. (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

Apidologie

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-45

  Fernandes Da Silva, Pedro Guilherme ^a   Serrão, José Eduardo ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestion; Hypopharyngeal gland; Meliponini; Pollen; Stingless bee

Indexed keywords

POLLEN;

DIGESTIBILITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; POLLEN;

ARTICLE; BEE; BIOASSAY; DIGESTION; FOOD PRESERVATION; HYPOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; STORAGE;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA;

EID: 0033964397     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000100     Document Type: Article

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