Comparison of methods for deploying female gypsy moths to evaluate mating disruption treatments

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-37

  Thorpe, Kevin W ^a,d   Hickman, Andrea D ^b   Tcheslavskaia, Ksenia S ^c   Leonard, Donna S ^a   Roberts, E Anderson ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Virginia Tech ^*

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial application; Disparlure; Gypsy moth; Laminate flakes; Lymantria dispar; Mating disruption; Mating success; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 33846483051     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2006.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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