Toxicity of sulfluramid to Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 457-466

  Grace, J Kenneth ^a   Yamamoto, Robin T ^a,b   Tome, Carrie H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

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