Movement of adult red flour beetles (Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae) in wheat with pockets of high moisture content

ASAE Annual International Meeting 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 7905-7915

  Parde, Shreekant R ^a   Jayas, Digvir S ^a,b   White, Noel D G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Department of Stored Grain Ecosystems ^*

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insect movement; Moisture content; Red flour beetle; Tribolium castaneum; Vertical and horizontal grain columns; Wheat

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MOISTURE;

INSECT MOVEMENT; RED FLOUR BEETLES;

INSECT CONTROL;

BINS; GRAIN; INSECTS; MOISTURE; WHEAT;

EID: 30044445406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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