Africanized honey bees (hymenoptera: apidae) have a greater fidelity to sunflowers than European bees

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 304-307

  Basualdo, Marina ^a   Bedascarrasbure, Enrique ^a   De Jong, David ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Sociales   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Argentina; Honey bees; Sunflowers pollen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUNFLOWER;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEES; HELIANTHUS;

EID: 0034168879     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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