Suppression of beetles in stored wheat by augmentative releases of parasitic wasps

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 505-511

  Flinn, P W ^a   Hagstrum, D W ^a   Mcgaughey, W H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

biological control; Cephalonomia waterstoni; Choetospila elegans; Cryptolestes ferrugineus; Rhyzopertha dominica; stored products

Indexed keywords

CEPHALONOMIA WATERSTONI; COLEOPTERA; CRYPTOLESTES FERRUGINEUS; ORYZAEPHILUS; RHYZOPERTHA DOMINICA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0030483494     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.2.505     Document Type: Article

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