Feeding Responses to Sound Wood by the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes

Author: SMYTHE RICHARD V.   CARTER FAIRIE LYN  

Publisher: Entomological Society of America

ISSN: 1938-2901

Source: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol.62, Iss.2, 1969-03, pp. : 335-337

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Abstract

Reliculitermes flavipes (Kollar) ate more of all 11 wood species tested and had poorer survival when the wood was placed on sand (forced feeding) than when it was placed on a substrate of southern pine sawdust. Red-wood and cypress were the least favored wood species, slash and loblolly pine, the most. Mortality was greatest on redwood and black walnut.

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