Management of western flower thrips on cucumber with Dicyphus tamaninii (Heteroptera: Miridae)

Biological Control

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 114-120

  Castañé, Cristina ^a   Alomar, Oscar ^a   Riudavets, Jordi ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biological control; cucumber; Dicyphus tamaninii; Frankliniella occidentalis; Miridae; Thripidae

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CROP; CUCUMBER; INFESTATION; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030219831     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0073     Document Type: Article

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