A laboratory evaluation of a regulated airflow through wheat at four combinations of temperature and humidity on the productivity of three species of stored product mites

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 89-102

  Thind, B B ^a   Dunn, J A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeration; Airflow; Humidity; Productivity; Stored product mites; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AERATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HUMIDITY; MITE; PEST CONTROL; PRODUCTIVITY; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE;

ACARIDAE; AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; INFESTATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEAT;

ACARIDAE; AIR; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MITE INFESTATIONS; TEMPERATURE; TRITICUM;

ACARI; ACARIDAE; ACARUS SIRO; ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOGLYPHUS DESTRUCTOR; SIRO; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TYROPHAGUS;

EID: 0036968451     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021522321940     Document Type: Article

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