Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) wood consumption and worker survival as affected by temperature and soldier proportion

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 509-514

  Fei, Huixin ^a   Henderson, Gregg ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coptotermes formosanus; Soldier proportion; Temperature; Termite survival; Wood consumption

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TERMITE;

COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0036627535     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.3.509     Document Type: Article

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