Dry season migration by Costa Rican lowland paper wasps to high elevation cold dormancy sites

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 192-196

  Mulkey, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Dormancy; Elevational migration; Hymenoptera; Mischocyttarus; Polistes; Seasonality; Vespidae; Wasp

Indexed keywords

HYMENOPTERA; MISCHOCYTTARUS; POLISTES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0344172767     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2663974     Document Type: Note

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