Response of Argentine ants and red imported fire ants to permethrin-impregnated plastic strips: Foraging rates, colonization of potted soil, and differential mortality

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2089-2094

  Costa, Heather S ^a   Greenberg, Les ^a   Klotz, John ^a   Rust, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Insecticide; Linepithema humile; Permethrin impregnated plastic; Solenopsis invicta

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 30744455528     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/98.6.2089     Document Type: Article

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