Study on the selection of some local pollen plants in West Bengal, India as pollen brood feed in Apis cerana Fabr. Larvae by the worker bees, through meconia analysis and community ordination method of recovered pollen taxa

Proceedings of the Zoological Society

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-44

  More, Sandip ^a   Ghorai, Narayan ^b   Bera, Subir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

brood food preference Apis cerana Fabr; Meconium pollen grains

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009218925     PISSN: 03735893     EISSN: 09746919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12595-010-0005-5     Document Type: Article

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