A proposed rating system for estimating the winter survival potential of boll weevils

Southwestern Entomologist

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 144-151

  Rummel, D R ^a   Carroll, S C ^a   Arnold, M D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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