Laboratory and field evaluation of exotic parasitoids of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (biotype 'B') (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Biological Control

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-135

  Goolsby, J A ^a   Ciomperlik, M A ^a   Legaspi Jr , B C ^b   Legaspi, J C ^a,c   Wendel, L E ^a  

^a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; EXOTIC PARASITOID; INFECTIVITY; PARASITISM; UNITED STATES;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; BEMISIA TABACI; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS PABULARIA; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ACEPHALA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA PERGANDIELLA; ERETMOCERUS; ERETMOCERUS MUNDUS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEMIPTERA; HIRSUTUM; HYMENOPTERA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MELO; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0031838348     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1998.0624     Document Type: Article

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