Is lack of mating competitiveness in spring linked to mating asynchrony between wild and mass-reared codling moths from an operational sterile insect programme?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-124

  Judd, Gary J R ^a   Thistlewood, Howard M A ^a   Gardiner, Mark G T ^a   Lannard, Brenda L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cydia pomonella; Irradiation; Lepidoptera; Mass rearing; Quality control; SIT; Substerile males; Tortricidae

Indexed keywords

DIAPAUSE; IRRADIATION; MATING SUCCESS; MOTH; PHEROMONE TRAP;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SUMMERLAND;

CYDIA POMONELLA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; OLETHREUTIDAE; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 33745933296     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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