Artificial substrate for egg laying and embryonic development by the predatory bug Macrolophus caliginosus (Heteroptera: Miridae)

Biological Control

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 140-147

  Constant, Bérengère ^a   Grenier, Simon ^a   Bonnot, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

artificial substrate; biological control; Heteroptera; Macrolophus caliginosus; oviposition

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; APHIDIDAE; DITTRICHIA VISCOSA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HETEROPTERA; INULA; MACROLOPHUS; MACROLOPHUS CALIGINOSUS; MIRIDAE; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0030272897     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0077     Document Type: Article

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