Effects of Routine Late-Season Field Operations on Numbers of Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Captured in Large-Capacity Pheromone Traps

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 680-689

  Showler, Allan T ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthonomus grandis; Boll weevil; Cotton; Trapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHONOMUS; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; INSECTA;

EID: 0242659082     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/96.3.680     Document Type: Article

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