Nesting resins obtained from Larrea pollen host by an oligolectic bee, Trachusa larreae (Cockerell) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-102

  Cane, James H ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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