Sequential sampling plans for use in timing insecticide applications for control of European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in potato

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1468-1476

  Nault, Brian A ^a   Kennedy, George G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

action thresholds; binomial and beta binomial probability distributions; decision making; presence absence sampling

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; PYRALIDAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030498399     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/89.6.1468     Document Type: Article

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