Time allocation of activities of two heteropteran predators on the leaves of three tomato cultivars with variable glandular trichome density

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 387-393

  Economou, Leonidas P ^a   Lykouressis, Dionyssios P ^a   Barbetaki, Afroditi E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Glandular hairs; Macrolophus pygmaeus; Orius niger; Predators; Tomato

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CULTIVAR; FRUIT; GROOMING; HERBIVORE; INSECT; LEAF; PREDATOR; TIME ALLOCATION;

ARTHROPODA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MACROLOPHUS PYGMAEUS; ORIUS NIGER;

EID: 33750210928     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-35.2.387     Document Type: Article

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