Termites fumigate their nests with naphthalene

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1998-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/33305
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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