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Apidologie

Vol. 34 No. 1 (January-February 2003)

• Nectar sugar content: estimating standing crop and secretion rate in the field     p. 1
  Sarah A. Corbet
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• Rapid determination of the numbers of Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, on sticky-board collection devices     p. 11
  Nicholas W. Calderone and Sisi Lin
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• The detection of Melissococcus pluton in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their products using a hemi-nested PCR     p. 19
  Ben Alexander McKee, Steven Philip Djordjevic, Russell David Goodman and Michael Alan Hornitzky
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• Pollinator biodiversity and floral resource use in Ecballium elaterium (Cucurbitaceae), a Mediterranean endemic     p. 29
  Richard W. Rust, Bernard E. Vaissière and Paul Westrich
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• A substance in honey bee larvae inhibits the growth of Paenibacillus larvae larvae     p. 43
  Manuela Wedenig, Ulrike Riessberger-Gallé and Karl Crailsheim
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• Wolbachia is present in Apis mellifera capensis, A. m. scutellata, and their hybrid in Southern Africa     p. 53
  Marjorie A. Hoy, Ayyamperumal Jeyaprakash, Juan M. Alvarez and Michael H. Allsopp
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• Weight loss in drone pupae (Apis mellifera) multiply infested by Varroa destructor mites     p. 61
  Pedro Duay, David De Jong and Wolf Engels
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• Variation in water and sucrose responsiveness during the foraging season affects proboscis extension learning in honey bees     p. 67
  Ricarda Scheiner, Marcus Barnert and Joachim Erber
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• Molecular phylogeny of the stingless bees (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini) inferred from mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences     p. 73
  Marco A. Costa, Marco A. Del Lama, Gabriel A.R. Melo and Walter S. Sheppard
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• A scientific note on the mating frequency of Apis dorsata     p. 85
  Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri, Kellie Palmer and Jürgen Paar
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• A scientific note on food alert in Bombus transversalis     p. 87
  Anna Dornhaus and Sydney Cameron
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