Remedial Baiting with Hexaflumuron in Above-Ground Stations to Control Structure-Infesting Populations of the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 809-817

  Su, Nan Yao ^a   Ban, Paul M ^a   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Above ground bait station; Colony elimination; Coptotermes formosanus; Hexaflumuron; Termite bait

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0000593052     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/90.3.809     Document Type: Article

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