For our April 2017 issue, we posed the following question to our regular contributors: What’s the best ant management lesson you’ve learned? For insights from Paul Hardy, Frank Meek and Mark “Shep” Sheperdigian, please turn to p. 14 of the issue. But three more of our experts also responded, as follows: Dr. Doup Mampe: Make […]
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