Use of Sucrose Octanoate Esters to Control the Parasitic Honey Bee Mite Varroa destructor

American Bee Journal

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 982-985

  Sheppard, Walter S ^a   Gardner, Melissa ^a   Hasher, Sally ^a   Kahkonen, Beth ^a   Meixner, Marina D ^a   Strange, James P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 0347604452     PISSN: 00027626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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