Laboratory studies on the transmission of Metarhizium anisopliae in the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), with a method for applying appropriate doses of conidia to trapped termites for release

Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 265-276

  Myles, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 0036375060     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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