Conservation biological control with the fungal pathogen Pandora neoaphidis: Implications of aphid species, host plant and predator foraging

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-30

  Ekesi, S ^b   Shah, P A ^a   Clark, S J ^a   Pell, J K ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Conservation biological control; Field boundaries; Metopolophium dirhodum; Microlophium carnosum; Noncrop plants; Pandora neoaphidis; Uroleucon jaceae

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON; ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; AVES; COCCINELLA; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COCCINELLIDAE; HOLCUS; HOLCUS LANATUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LOTUS; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; METOPOLOPHIUM DIRHODUM; PANDORA NEOAPHIDIS; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PISUM; UROLEUCON; UROLEUCON JACEAE; URTICA;

EID: 13544252677     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9555.2005.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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