Observations on honey plants and Africanized honey bees in the temperate-zone State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

American Bee Journal

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 401-404

  Outlaw Jr , William H ^a   Fleig, Mariana ^b   Grüninger, Werner ^a   Magel, Elisabeth ^c,d   Hampp, Rüdiger ^c,d  

^a Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Sul ^*  (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

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