Incidence of Feeding by the Eastern Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in Laboratory Bioassay

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-273

  Forschler, Brian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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