Seasonal sex ratio and unbalanced investment sex ratio in the Banksia bee Hylaeus alcyoneus

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 713-719

  Paini, Dean R ^a   Bailey, Winston J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Hylaeus alcyoneus; Hymenoptera; Resource dependency; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BEE; BODY SIZE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AUSTRALIA;

APOIDEA; BANKSIA; COLLETIDAE; HYLAEUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036893922     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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