Attractiveness of Synthetic Corn Volatiles to Feral Northern and Western Corn Rootworm Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-317

  Hammack, Leslie ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractant; Corn rootworm; Diabrotica barberi; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera; Host finding; Kairomone

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIABROTICA BARBERI; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA VIRGIFERA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0001617156     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.2.311     Document Type: Article

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