Coprophagy Facilitates Horizontal Transmission of Bait among Cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-438

  Kopanic Jr , Robert J ^a   Schal, Coby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bait; Blattella germanica; Coprophagy; Horizontal toxicant transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; DICTYOPTERA;

EID: 0000380299     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.3.431     Document Type: Article

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