Suggestion of an Environmental Influence on Intercolony Agonism of Formosan Subterranean Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 632-637

  Shelton, Thomas G ^a,b   Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonism; Coptotermes formosanus; Kin recognition; Termite behavior

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0001665315     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.3.632     Document Type: Article

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