Progress in the search for biological control agents of clover root weevil, sitona lepidus (coleoptera: Curculionidae)

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 541-547

  Phillips, C B ^a   Goldson, S L ^a   Reimer, L ^b   Kuhlmann, U ^b  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b CABI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; INSECT CONTROL; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITISM; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; PARASITOID; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

BRACONIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MICROCTONUS AETHIOPOIDES; MICROSOMA EXIGUUM; PYGOSTOLUS FALCATUS; SITONA LEPIDUS; TACHINIDAE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 0034471084     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.2000.9513451     Document Type: Article

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