Queen behaviour, reproduction and egg cannibalism in multiple-queen colonies of the ant Leptothorax acervorum
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Animal Behaviour
- Vol. 42 (2) , 295-310
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80561-5
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