Factors that induce emergence and flight of southern fire ant alates (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-75

  Hooper, Linda M ^b   Rust, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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