Efficacy and persistence of entomopathogenic nematodes in controlling larval populations of Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Lepidoptera: Thaumetopoeidae)

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 747-752

  Triggiani, Oreste ^a   Tarasco, Eustachio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gel injections; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Nests; Overwintering larvae; Pinus halepensis reforestation; S. carpocapsae; Steinernema feltiae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; LARVA; NEMATODE; PEST CONTROL;

BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; ITALY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; OVERWINTERING; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CAUDATA; HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA; THAUMETOPOEIDAE;

EID: 0036862415     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958315021000039923     Document Type: Article

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