Impact of reflective mulch on yield of strawberry plants and incidence of damage by tarnished plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1477-1484

  Rhainds, Marc ^a   Kovach, Joe ^a,b   Dosa, Ekwe Lokossou ^a   English Loeb, Greg ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reflective mulch; Resistant cultivars; Strawberry; Tarnished plant bug

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; NYMPH; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; ROSACEAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; HETEROPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT REPELLENTS; NYMPH; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; ROSACEAE;

EID: 0035748607     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493-94.6.1477     Document Type: Article

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