The assessment of potential attractants to beetle pests: Improvement to laboratory pitfall bioassay methods

Journal of Stored Products Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-74

  Morgan, Colin ^a   Sherington, John ^b   Gudrups, Irene ^b   Bowden, Natalie S ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractant; Pitfall bioassay; Stored product insects; Volatile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031968912     PISSN: 0022474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-474X(97)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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