Microdot technology for individual marking of small arthropods

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-175

  Whitehead, Michael R ^a   Peakall, Rod ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Individual marking; Insect behaviour; Insect marking; Insect movement; Mark release recapture; Thynnine

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84859439077     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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