Predator conservation in cotton: Using grain sorghum as a source for insect predators

Biological Control

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-229

  Prasifka, Jarrad R ^a   Krauter, Peter C ^a   Heinz, Kevin M ^a   Sansone, Christopher G ^a   Minzenmayer, Richard R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Hippodamia convergens; Movement; Orius spp.

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; APHIDIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS; HIRSUTUM; INSECTA; ORIUS; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 0032834426     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0760     Document Type: Article

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