Odor-Baited Trap Trees: A New Approach to Monitoring Plum Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 826-834

  Prokopy, Ronald J ^a   Chandler, Bradley W ^a   Dynok, Sara A ^a   Piñero, Jaime C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractants; Conotrachelus nenuphar; Monitoring; Odor; Trap trees

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; CONOTRACHELUS; CONOTRACHELUS NENUPHAR; CURCULIO; CURCULIONIDAE; INSECTA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0242407301     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/96.3.826     Document Type: Article

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