Combined releases of entomopathogenic nematodes and the predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer to control soil-dwelling stages of western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis

BioControl

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 529-541

  Premachandra, W T S D ^a   Borgemeister, C ^a   Berndt, O ^a   Ehlers, R U ^b   Poehling, H M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acarina; Entomopathogenic nematodes; Frankliniella occidentalis; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Hypoaspis aculeifer; Laelapidae; Soil dwelling stages; Steinernema feltiae; Thripidae; Thysanoptera

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; MITE; NEMATODE; PEST CONTROL; PREDATION; SEEDLING; THRIPS;

ACARI; FRANKLINIELLA OCCIDENTALIS; FRANKLINIELLA TRITICI; HETERORHABDITIDAE; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HYPOASPIS; HYPOASPIS ACULEIFER; INSECTA; LAELAPIDAE; NEMATODA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHABDITIDA; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; STEINERNEMATIDAE; THRIPIDAE; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 0141838575     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025703512113     Document Type: Article

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