Absence of overt agonistic behavior in a northern population of Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-110

  Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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