Laboratory toxicity of three mosquito oviposition repellents to six nontarget aquatic invertebrates

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 437-441

  Xue, Rui De ^a   Barnard, Donald R ^a   Ali, Arshad ^b  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chironomus decorus; Eucyclops agilis; Insect repellents; Strelkovimermis spiculatus; Toxicity; Toxorhynchites amboinensis

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; MOSQUITO; NONTARGET ORGANISM; OVIPOSITION; REPELLENT; TOXICITY TEST;

AEDES ALBOPICUS; CHIRONOMUS DECORUS; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CULICIDAE; CYPRICERCUS; DIPTERA; EUCYCLOPS AGILIS; MOINA; NEMATODA; OSTRACODA; STRELKOVIMERMIS SPICULATUS; TOXORHYNCHITES AMBOINENSIS;

EID: 0033867655     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-29.3.437     Document Type: Article

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