Host-plant preference of Brachypterolus pulicarius, an inadvertently introduced biological control insect of toadflaxes

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 183-189

  MacKinnon, Daniel K ^a   Hufbauer, Ruth A ^a   Norton, Andrew P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Herbivores; Invasive species; Linaria spp.; Local adaptation; Seed feeders; Toadflax; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST PLANT; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE;

NORTH AMERICA;

BRACHYPTEROLUS PULICARIUS; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; LINARIA; LINARIA DALMATICA; LINARIA GENISTIFOLIA; LINARIA VULGARIS; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

EID: 33745319492     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2005.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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