Effects of food type and foraging distance on Trophallaxis in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes virginicus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 487-498

  Suárez, Mark E ^a   Thorne, Barbara L ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

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