Effects of nutrition on longevity, fertility, ovariol yield, food consumption and metamorphosis of the grasshopper euprepocnemis plorans

Insect Science and its Application

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-347

  Elsayed, G ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Euprepocnemis plorans; Food consumption; Nitrile, insect plant interaction; Reproductive behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009682897     PISSN: 01919040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1742758400018579     Document Type: Article

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