Unattractiveness of three commercial proteinaceous fruit fly baits to honey bees

Crop Protection

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 995-997

  Mazor, Michal ^a   Gazit, Shirley ^a   Reuven, Galit ^a   Efrat, Haim ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Attraction; Ceratitis capitata; Israel; Malathion; Mortality; Protein based baits

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTANT; BAIT; HONEYBEE; MALATHION; MORTALITY;

ISRAEL;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CITRUS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0041911121     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-2194(03)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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