Attraction of wild and laboratory-strain Mexican fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) to two synthetic lures in a wind tunnel

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-96

  Robacker, David C ^a  

^a KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTREPHA LUDENS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0003206870     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3495839     Document Type: Article

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