Predators feeding on the Colorado potato beetle in insecticide-free plots and insecticide-treated commercial potato fields in Eastern North Carolina

Biological Control

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-282

  Hilbeck, Angelika ^a   Kennedy, George G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthapeira stellata; biological control; Calleida decora; carbofuran; Coleomegilla maculata; Collops quadrimaculatus; Colorado potato beetle; European corn borer; Geocoris punctipes; Hippodamia convergens; Latrodectus mactans; Lebia analis; Lebia grandis; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Perillus bioculatus; Peucetia viridans; Podisus maculaventris; potato; predators; Solanum tuberosum; Stiretus anchorago; Tetragnatha labriosa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030130499     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0034     Document Type: Article

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