A behavioural study to help clarify how undersowing with clover affects host-plant selection by pest insects of brassica crops

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-172

  Finch, S ^a   Kienegger, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brassica pests; Brevicoryne brassicae; Delia radicum; Evergestis forficalis; Mamestra brassicae; Phaedon cochleariae; Pieris brassicae; Pieris rapae; Plutella xylostella; Trifolium subterraneum; Undersowing

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; HOST PLANT SELECTION; OILSEED RAPE; SUBTERRANEAN CLOVER; UNDERSOWING;

ANTHOMYIIDAE; APHIDIDAE; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICA OLERACEAE; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; BRASSICACEAE; BREVICORYNE BRASSICAE; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DELIA RADICUM; DIPTERA; EVERGESTIS; EVERGESTIS FORFICALIS; FABACEAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; NOCTUIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEAE; PHAEDON COCHLEARIAE; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PYRALIDAE; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 0030923546     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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