Effects of four chitin synthesis inhibitors on feeding and mortality of the Eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 833-859

  Vahabzadeh, Rebecca D ^a   Gold, Roger E ^a   Austin, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin synthesis inhibitors; Insect growth regulators; Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar); Subterranean termites; Termite baiting systems

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 36048945767     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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