Functional response of the azalea plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) and a green lacewing Chrysoperla rufilabris (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), two predators of the azalea lace bug (Heteroptera: Tingidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1184-1190

  Stewart, Colin D ^a,b   Braman, S Kristine ^a   Pendley, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative release; Chrysoperla rufilabris; Functional response; Rhinocapsus vanduzeei; Stephanitis pyrioides; Urban landscape

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

CHRYSOPERLA; CHRYSOPERLA RUFILABRIS; CHRYSOPIDAE; HETEROPTERA; MIRIDAE; NEUROPTERA; RHINOCAPSUS VANDUZEEI; STEPHANITIS; STEPHANITIS PYRIOIDES; TINGIDAE;

EID: 0036958638     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.6.1184     Document Type: Article

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