Effect of intercropping cowpea with maize on the performance of metarhizium anisopliae against Megalurothrips sjostedti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and predators

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1154-1161

  Ekesi, S ^a   Maniania, N K ^a   Ampong Nyarko, K ^a   Onu, I ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cowpea; Megalurothrips sjostedti; Metarhizium anisopliae; Synthetic insecticide nontarget organisms; Thrips

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; COWPEA; CROPPING SYSTEM; MAIZE; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL;

INSECTICIDE; INTERCROPPING; PEST CONTROL; THRIPS;

FUNGI; INSECTA; MEGALUROTHRIPS; MEGALUROTHRIPS SJOSTEDTI; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; THRIPIDAE; THYSANOPTERA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033402944     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.6.1154     Document Type: Article

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