Temporal and spatial variation in caste proportions in a northern Reticulitermes flavipes colony (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-231

  Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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