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The Effect of the Argentine Ant on the Threatened Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle

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Huxel, G.R. The Effect of the Argentine Ant on the Threatened Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle. Biological Invasions 2, 81–85 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010015722996

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