Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Female Sex Pheromone for Detection, Monitoring, and Management of Brownbanded Cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 480-485

  Liang, Dangsheng ^a,b   Zhang, Aijun ^a,c   Kopanic Jr , Robert J ^a   Roelofs, Wendell L ^a,c   Schal, Coby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Clorox Company   (United States)

^c New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Pest detection; Sex pheromone; Supella longipalpa; Supellapyrone; Trapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010413985     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/91.2.480     Document Type: Article

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