Open-air-nesting honey bees Apis dorsata and Apis laboriosa differ from the cavity-nesting Apis mellifera and Apis cerana in brood hygiene behaviour

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Woyke, J ^a   Wilde, J ^b   Reddy, C C ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^c BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Apis dorsata; Apis laboriosa; Hygiene behaviour; India; Migrations; Nepal; Tropilaelaps clareae

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APINAE; APIS; APIS CERANA; APIS DORSATA; APIS LABORIOSA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; TROPILAELAPS; TROPILAELAPS CLAREAE;

EID: 2542487810     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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