Limited Prédation Capacity by Generalist Arthropod Predators on the Cereal Aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 15, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 142-150

  Bilde, Trine ^a   Toft, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CEREAL APHID; PREDATION CAPACITY;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HOMOPTERA; LINYPHIIDAE; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 0031400533     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1997.9755188     Document Type: Article

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