Effectiveness of GF-120 Fruit Fly Bait Spray Applied to Border Area Plants for Control of Melon Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1485-1493

  Prokopy, Ronald J ^a   Miller, Neil W ^b   Piñero, Jaime C ^a   Barry, James D ^c   Tran, Linda C ^c   Oride, Leslie ^b   Vargas, Roger I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b US Pacific Basin Agric Res Ctr   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bactrocera cucurbitae; Bait sprays; GF 120 fruit fly bait; Spinosad

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTROCERA CUCURBITAE; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0347663929     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/96.5.1485     Document Type: Article

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