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Tarsal secretion marks food sources in bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Schmitt; Gunther Lübke; Wittko Francke

Publisher: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 559 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 0937-7409
DOI: 10.1007/bf01240664

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