Two meridic diets for perillus bioculatus (heteroptera: Pentatomidae), a predator of leptinotarsa decemlineata (coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 92-99

  Rojas, M Guadalupe ^a   Morales Ramos, Juan A ^a   King, Edgar G ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Colorado potato beetle; In vitro rearing; Insecta; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Mass propagation; Nutrition; Perillus bioculatus

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; BODY WEIGHT; FERTILITY; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FABRICIUS; GALLUS GALLUS; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; PENTATOMIDAE; PERILLUS BIOCULATUS; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033960392     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0780     Document Type: Article

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