A physiological age-grading system for neochetina eichhorniae (Warner) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a biological control agent of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

Biological Control

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-105

  Grodowitz, Michael J ^a   Center, Ted D ^b   Freedman, Jan E ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age grading; Biocontrol; Neochetina; Reproduction; Water hyacinth

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; HYACINTHUS; NEOCHETINA; NEOCHETINA EICHHORNIAE; NEOCHETINIA; NEOCHETINIA EICHHORNIAE;

EID: 0031171734     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1997.0525     Document Type: Article

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