The importance of protein type and protein to carbohydrate ratio for survival and ovarian activation of caged honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata)

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 41, Number 1, January-February 2010


Page(s)		62 - 72
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009055
Published online		14 October 2009

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