Mobility of three generalist predators is greater on cabbage with glossy leaf wax than on cabbage with a wax bloom

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 335-343

  Eigenbrode, S D ^a,c   Castagnola, T ^a   Roux, M B ^b   Steljes, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica oleracea; cabbage; Chrysoperla carnea; Hippodamia convergens; Orius insidiosus; Platella xylostella; predation; surface waxes; tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCORIDAE; BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CHRYSOPERLA CARNEA; COCCINELLIDAE; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS; LEPIDOPTERA; NEUROPTERA; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICACEAE; CHRYSOPIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CABBAGE; DIAMONDBACK MOTH; PREDATION; SURFACE WAX; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0030301735     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1996.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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