Nesting biology and subsociality in ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-74

  Rehan, Sandra M ^a   Richards, Miriam H ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID; BEE; EMERGENCE; EUSOCIALITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; LIFE HISTORY; NESTING; OVERWINTERING; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

APIDAE; APOIDEA; CERATINA CALCARATA; HYMENOPTERA; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 77649169316     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n09-056     Document Type: Article

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