Biology, rearing, and preliminary evaluation of host range of two potential biological control agents for mile-a-minute weed, Polygonum perfoliatum L.

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 229-236

  Price, D L ^a   Hough Goldstein, J ^a   Smith, M T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Beneficial Insect Introduction R   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Homorosoma chinensis; Host specificity; Mile a minute weed; Polygonum perfoliatum; Timandra griseata

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST RANGE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; REARING; WEED CONTROL;

UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FAGOPYRUM; FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM; FAGOPYRUM TARTARICUM; FAGOPYRUM TATARICUM; GEOMETRIDAE; HOMOROSOMA; HOMOROSOMA CHINENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MIKANIA MICRANTHA; POLYGONACEAE; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM PERFOLIATUM; RHEUM; RHEUM RHABARBARUM; RHEUM X CULTORUM; TIMANDRA GRISEATA;

EID: 0037305477     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.1.229     Document Type: Article

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