Coordinated responses to honey bee decline in the USA

Open Access

Review

Issue		Apidologie Volume 41, Number 3, May-June 2010 Honey bee health


Page(s)		256 - 263
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2010013
Published online		07 April 2010

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