Acoustic evaluation of trees for coptotermes formosanus shiraki (isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) treated with imidacloprid and noviflumuron in historic Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-95

  Osbrink, W ^a   Cornelius, M ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

AED; Formosan termite; Reinvasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879684105     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v60i1.77-95     Document Type: Article

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