How Healthy are Commercially-produced U.S. Honey Bee Queens?

American Bee Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 677-680

  Camazine, Scott ^a   Çakmak, Ibrahim ^a   Cramp, Karen ^a   Finley, Jennifer ^a   Fisher, Jamie ^a   Frazier, Maryann ^a   Rozo, Albert ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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