X-ray computerized tomography as a new method for monitoring Amegilla holmesi nest structures, nesting behaviour, and adult female activity

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-76

  Greco, Mark ^a   Bell, Melissa ^a   Spooner Hart, Robert ^a   Holford, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apiculture; Apidae; Ascosphaera; Blue banded bee; CT; Fossorial bee; Hymenoptera; Miltogramma; Natal cell

Indexed keywords

BEE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEST STRUCTURE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

AMEGILLA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 33745104110     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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