Seasonal response of workers of the Allegheny mound ant, Formica exsectoides (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) to artificial honeydews of varying nutritional content

Great Lakes Entomologist

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 15-27

  Bristow, C M ^a   Yanity, E ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b S Antonio Zoological Gdns Aquarium   (United States)

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FORMICA EXSECTOIDES;

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