Waste Management in the Stingless Bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Waste management is important in insect societies because waste can be hazardous to adults, brood and food stores. The general organization of waste management and the influence of task partitioning, division of labor and age polyethism on waste processing were studied in three colonies of the tropi...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Sociobiology |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/643 |