Absconding, migration and swarming

Honeybees of Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 133-158

  Hepburn, H R ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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