Integration of biological control agents with other weed management technologies: Successes from the leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) IPM program

Biological Control

Volumn 35, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 366-375

  Lym, Rodney G ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphthona czwalinae; Aphthona flava; Aphthona lacertosa; Aphthona nigriscutis; Biological control; Endangered species; Euphorbia esula; Invasive weeds; IPM; Leafy spurge flea beetles; Spurgia esulae

Indexed keywords

ALTICINI; APHTHONA; APHTHONA CZWALINAE; APHTHONA FLAVA; APHTHONA LACERTOSA; APHTHONA NIGRISCUTIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CECIDOMYIIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA ESULA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORCHIDACEAE; OVIS ARIES; PLATANTHERA PRAECLARA; POACEAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPURGIA ESULAE;

EID: 27744534322     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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