Penetrability of some Ontario construction aggregates by the eastern subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 277-288

  Myles, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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