Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Residual Mortality and Artificial Weathering of Formulated Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 574-582

  Ferro, David N ^a   Slocombe, Andrew C ^a   Mercier, Chris T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis; Colorado potato beetle; Environmental factors

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR TENEBRIONIS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GOES; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0000070212     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/90.2.574     Document Type: Article

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