A method for year-round rearing of cuckoo bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Bombus subgenus Psithyrus)

Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-125

  Lhomme, Patrick ^a   Sramkova, Anna ^b   Kreuter, Kirsten ^b   Lecocq, Thomas ^a   Rasmont, Pierre ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bombus; bumblebee breeding; laboratory rearing; social parasitism

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; BOMBUS PRATORUM; BOMBUS SYLVESTRIS; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BOMBUS VESTALIS; HYMENOPTERA; PSITHYRUS;

EID: 84878739058     PISSN: 00379271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2013.774949     Document Type: Article

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