Adult plum curculio (coleoptera: curculionidae) attraction to fruit and conspecific odors

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-288

  Leskey, Tracy C ^a,b   Prokopy, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conotrachelus nenuphar; Host plant volatiles; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942489416     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0275:APCCCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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