Role of Reproductive Diapause in the Adaption of the Tarnished Plant Bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) to Its Winter Habitat in the Mississippi River Delta

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 945-952

  Snodgrass, Gordon L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diapause; Lygus lineolaris; Photoperiod; Tarnished plant bug

Indexed keywords

DIAPAUSE; HABITAT SELECTION; OVERWINTERING; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION;

MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA; UNITED STATES;

HETEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LYGUS LINEOLARIS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 0242485164     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.5.945     Document Type: Article

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