Development of a sequential plan to evaluate Neodryinus typhlocybae (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) population associated with Metcalfa pruinosa (Say) (Homoptera: Flatidae) infestation in northwestern Italy

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 819-824

  Alma, Alberto ^a   Ferracini, Chiara ^a   Burgio, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological control; Sequential sampling; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COCOON; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

DRYINIDAE; FLATIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; METCALFA PRUINOSA;

EID: 23444457090     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-34.4.819     Document Type: Article

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