Competitive interactions among two specialist predators and a generalist predator of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) in south-western Virginia

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-262

  Flowers, R W ^a   Salom, S M ^a   Kok, L T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Competitive interactions; Harmonia axyridis; Hemlock woolly adelgid; Laricobius nigrinus; Sasajiscymnus (Pseudoscymnus) tsugae

Indexed keywords

ADELGES TSUGAE; ADELGIDAE; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; HEMIPTERA; LARICOBIUS NIGRINUS; SASAJISCYMNUS TSUGAE;

EID: 33746825503     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2006.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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