Using bait to suppress the southern fire ant on an ecologically sensitive site (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-289

  Hooper, Linda M ^b   Rust, Michael K ^b   Reierson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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