Installation guidelines for the Basaltic termite barrier: A particle barrier to Formosan subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-16

  Yates III, Julian R ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^a   Reinhardt, James N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Architectural Diagnostics Ltd   (United States)

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