Gonadal development and egg-laying response of female white pine weevils reared on artificial and natural diets

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-214

  Trudel, Richard ^a   Lavallée, Robert ^b   Bauce, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FECUNDITY; OCIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PISSODES STROBI;

EID: 0031864326     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent130201-2     Document Type: Article

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