Adaptation to artificial rearing during successive generations in the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 735-739

  Shimoji, Yukio ^a   Miyatake, Takahisa ^a  

^a Fruit Fly Eradication Project Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Artificial rearing; Euscepes postfasciatus; Oviposition behavior; Sterile insect technique

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BEETLE; FECUNDITY; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL; REARING; STERILE RELEASE METHOD;

JAPAN; OKINAWA;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; EUSCEPES POSTFASCIATUS; INSECTA; IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 0036880518     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2002)095[0735:ATARDS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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