Management of late-season adults of the Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with entomopathogenic nematodes

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 509-514

  Stewart, Jeff G ^a   Boiteau, Gilles ^a   Kimpinski, Joe ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; NEMATODE; PATHOGENESIS;

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; NEMATODE;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; NEMATODA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSUE;

EID: 0031726954     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent130509-4     Document Type: Article

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