Movement of greenhouse whitefly and its predators between in- and outside of Mediterranean greenhouses

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-348

  Gabarra, Rosa ^a   Alomar, Òscar ^a   Castañé, Cristina ^a   Goula, Marta ^b   Albajes, Ramon ^c  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crop colonisation; Dicyphus tamaninii; Greenhouses; Macrolophus caliginosus melanotoma; Predators; Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; PREDATOR; WHITEFLY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALEYRODIDAE; DICYPHUS; DICYPHUS TAMANINII; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MACROLOPHUS; MACROLOPHUS CALIGINOSUS; TRIALEURODES VAPORARIORUM;

EID: 1842661739     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2003.08.012     Document Type: Article

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