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Apidologie

Vol. 34 No. 4 (July-August 2003)

• Nest construction and architecture of the Amazonian bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae)     p. 321
  Olivia Mariko Taylor and Sydney A. Cameron
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• Longevity of Bombus terrestris workers (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in relation to pollen availability, in the absence of foraging     p. 333
  Paul Smeets and Marie José Duchateau
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• Quantitative analysis of intracolonial and intercolonial morphometric variance in honeybees, Apis mellifera and Apis cerana     p. 339
  Sarah E. Radloff, Randall Hepburn and Lindsey J. Bangay
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• Comparison of flight design of Asian honeybee drones     p. 353
  Sarah E. Radloff, H. Randall Hepburn and Gudrun Koeniger
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• Secretions of stingless bees: the Dufour glands of some Frieseomelitta species (Apidae, Meliponinae)     p. 359
  Eda Flávia L.R.A. Patricio, Leopoldo Cruz López, Roland Maile and E. David Morgan
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• Apis mellifera pomonella, a new honey bee subspecies from Central Asia     p. 367
  Walter S. Sheppard and Marina D. Meixner
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• In vitro secretion of ecdysteroid-dependent proteins and of a 70 kDa subunit reactive to anti-prophenoloxidase serum by Apis mellifera integument     p. 377
  Nínive A. Colonello, Maria Salete Zufelato, Zilá L.P. Simões and Márcia M.G. Bitondi
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• Swarming in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and Varroa destructor population development in Sweden     p. 389
  Ingemar Fries, Henrik Hansen, Anton Imdorf and Peter Rosenkranz
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• The effects of adult small hive beetles, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), on nests and flight activity of Cape and European honey bees (Apis mellifera)     p. 399
  James D. Ellis Jr., Randall Hepburn, Keith S. Delaplane, Peter Neumann and Patti J. Elzen
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• Susceptibility of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to pellitorine, an amide isolated from Piper tuberculatum (Piperaceae)     p. 409
  José Ednilson Miranda, Hosana Maria Debonsi Navickiene, Regina Helena Nogueira-Couto, Sérgio Antônio De Bortoli, Massuo Jorge Kato, Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani and Maysa Furlan
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