Inundative biological control of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema riobravis (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-43

  Feaster, Michael A ^a,b   Steinkraus, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Arkansas State Plant Board   (United States)

Author keywords

corn; corn earworm; cotton bollworm; irrigation; steinernematids

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; INFECTION RATE; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY;

EID: 0030218829     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0061     Document Type: Article

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