Effect of Exposure of Eggs to Vapours from Essential Oils on Egg Mortality, Development and Adult Emergence in Earias vittella (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 303-307

  Marimuthu, S ^a   Gurusubramanian, G ^a   Krishna, S S ^a  

^a LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG MORTALITY; ESSENTIAL OIL; HATCHABILITY; PUPAL WEIGHT; SPOTTED BOLLWORM;

EARIAS VITTELLA; LAMIACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; NOCTUIDAE; CITRONELLA; CYMBOPOGON; EARIAS; MENTHA; MENTHA X PIPERITA;

EID: 0031392497     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1997.9755166     Document Type: Article

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