Nutritive value and apparent digestibility of bee-collected and bee-stored pollen in the stingless bee, Scaptotrigona postica Latr. (hymenoptera, apidae, meliponini)

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 1, January-Febuary 2000


Page(s)		39 - 45
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000100

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