Pollen nutrition and colony development in honey bees: Part I

Bee World

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-10

  Keller, Irene ^a   Fluri, Peter ^a   Imdorf, Anton ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 16844362427     PISSN: 0005772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2005.11099641     Document Type: Review

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