Seasonal activity, wood consumption rates, and response to above-ground delivery of hexaflumuron-treated Bait to Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin

Sociobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 181-200

  DeMark, Joseph J ^a   Thomas, James D ^a  

^a DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

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