Trapping small hive beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) inside colonies of honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

American Bee Journal

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 405-409

  Hood, Wm Michael ^a   Miller, Gilbert A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AETHINA; AETHINA TUMIDA; APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; NITIDULIDAE;

EID: 0038054622     PISSN: 00027626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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