Nectar feeding in long-proboscid insects

Ecology and Biomechanics: A Mechanical Approach to the Ecology of Animals and Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 185-212

  Borrell, Brendan J ^a   Krenn, Harald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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