Extreme Effects of Season on the Foraging Activities and Colony Productivity of a Stingless Bee (<i>Melipona asilvai</i> Moure, 1971) in Northeast Brazil

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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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Figure 3: Extreme Effects of Season on the Foraging Activities and Colony Productivity of a Stingless Bee (<i>Melipona asilvai</i> Moure, 1971) in Northeast Brazil 

Figure 3 | Extreme Effects of Season on the Foraging Activities and Colony Productivity of a Stingless Bee (Melipona asilvai Moure, 1971) in Northeast Brazil 