Migratory ecology of the black cutworm

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 42, Issue , 1997, Pages 393-425

  Showers, William B ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interreproductive flight; migration; prereproductive flight; range of tolerance; transport mechanisms

Indexed keywords

AGROTIS IPSILON; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030887889     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.393     Document Type: Review

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