Commercial adoption of biological control-based IPM for whiteflies in poinsettia

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 481-483

  Van Driesche, R G ^a   Lyon, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HORTICULTURE; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; WHITEFLY;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; ARTHROPODA; BEMISIA; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; ERETMOCERUS; ERETMOCERUS EREMICUS; EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1042267471     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2003)086[0481:CAOBCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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