Attractiveness of insecticide baits for cockroach control (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae): Laboratory and field studies

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 686-693

  Nalyanya, Godfrey ^a   Liang, Dangsheng ^a,b   Kopanic Jr , Robert J ^a,c   Schal, Goby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Clorox Company   (United States)

^c S C Johnson & Son Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractants; Baits; Blattella germanica; Cockroach; Supella longipalpa

Indexed keywords

INSECT ATTRACTANTS; INSECTICIDE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BLATTELLIDAE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LABORATORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLATTELLIDAE; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; LABORATORIES; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES;

EID: 0035377965     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493-94.3.686     Document Type: Article

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