Toxic effects of methanolic and dichloromethane extracts of flowers and peduncles of stryphnodendron adstringens (leguminosae: Mimosoideae) on apis mellifera and scaptotrigona postica workers

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 112-116

  de Souza, Tiago Favaro ^a   Cintra, Priscila ^a   Malaspina, Osmar ^a   Bueno, Odair Correa ^a   Fernandes, João B ^b   da Silva Almeida, Sheila Susan M ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Barbatim o; Botanical extracts; Honey bees; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; FABACEAE; MIMOSOIDEAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA; STRYPHNODENDRON ADSTRINGENS;

EID: 33750360785     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2006.11101328     Document Type: Article

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