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A scientific note on the founding and the early growth of new nests of the stingless bee Plebeia remota

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Acknowledgments

We wish to dedicate this work to Dr. Paulo Nogueira-Neto who was the first Brazilian scientist to perform a very elegant study in order to understand the swarming process in the stingless bees. Also we thank CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; 135074/2005-3 to PNS; 140169/2000 to SDH) and FAPESP (05/58093-8 to DAA; 04/15801-0 to VLIF) and CAPES (to DAA) for financial support.

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  1. Department Biodiversidade e Ecologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Patrícia Nunes-Silva

  2. Department Ecologia, IB, Universidade de São Paulo, R. do Matão Trav. 14, 321, 05508-090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Patrícia Nunes-Silva, Denise Araujo Alves, Sergio Dias Hilário, Pérsio de Souza Santos-Filho & Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

  3. Department Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Pádua Dias, 11, 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Denise Araujo Alves

  4. Department Ciências Animais, Universidade Federal do Semi-Árido, Av. Francisco Mota, 572, 59625-900, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

    Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

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Nunes-Silva, P., Alves, D.A., Hilário, S.D. et al. A scientific note on the founding and the early growth of new nests of the stingless bee Plebeia remota . Apidologie 45, 748–751 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-014-0290-5

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