Evaluation of treatment success and patterns of reinfestation of the formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1370-1380

  Husseneder, Claudia ^a   Simms, Dawn M ^a   Riegel, Claudia ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b City of New Orleans Mosquito and Termite Control Board   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; INSECTICIDE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NOVIFLUMURON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INSECT CONTROL; ISOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; BREEDING; GENOTYPE; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; ISOPTERA; LOUISIANA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34548172426     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[1370:EOTSAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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