Adsorption Model of Aerosolized Bacterial Spores (Bacillus subtilisVarietyniger) Onto Free-Flying Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its Validation
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- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 30 (6) , 1188-1194
- https://doi.org/10.1603/0046-225x-30.6.1188
Abstract
It has been shown that honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) adsorb bacterial spores as a function of the electrostatic charge on the bee and concentrationKeywords
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