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SANTOS, L. H. ; BARCHUK, A. R. ; TEIXEIRA, I. R. V. Urban bees: the social species inhabiting central green spaces of Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. RESEARCH, SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT, v. 12, p. 1, 2023.
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