Workers often predominate in dusk ‘drone flights’ of the giant honey bee apis dorsata

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 130-132

  Woyke, Jerzy ^a   Wilde, Jerzy ^b   Wilde, Maria ^b   Reddy, C Chandrashekar ^c   Cervancia, Cleofas ^d  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

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

^c BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Apis dorsata; Apis dorsata breviligula; Drone flights; Dusk flights; India; Philippines

Indexed keywords

APIS DORSATA; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 26844510913     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2005.11101165     Document Type: Article

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