Treatment of adult coleoptera with a chitin synthesis inhibitor affects mortality and development time of their progeny

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-39

  Elek, Jane A ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Chitin synthesis inhibitors (CSIs); Chlorfluazuron; Coleoptera; Insect growth regulators (IGRs); Insecticide; Rhyzopertha dominica; Sitophilus oryzae; Stored grain pests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHEMICAL CONTROL; GROWTH REGULATOR; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; WHEAT;

BOSTRICHIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORYZAEPHILUS; RHYZOPERTHA DOMINICA; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031857730     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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