Hygienic behaviour in honey bees in the UK: A preliminary study

Bee World

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-26

  Waite, Ruth ^a   Brown, Michael ^a   Thompson, Helen ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0038054754     PISSN: 0005772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2003.11099567     Document Type: Article

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