Pollen Loads on Adult Insects from Tamarisk Flowers and Inferences about Larval Habitats at Topock Marsh, Arizona

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-60

  Wiesenborn, W D ^a   Heydon, S L ^b   Lorenzen, K ^b  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flower constancy; Insecta; Larval diet; Pollination; Tamarix ramosissima

Indexed keywords

DETRITIVORY; FLOWER; FLY; HONEYBEE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; NESTING; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SHRUB;

TOPOCK MARSH; UNITED STATES;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SPHECIDAE; SYRITTA PIPIENS; SYRPHIDAE; TAMARICACEAE; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA; TIPHIIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 77749340346     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2317/JKES-705-15.1     Document Type: Article

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