Management of pest mole crickets in Florida and Puerto Rico with a nematode and parasitic wasp

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 229-233

  Leppla, N C ^a   Frank, J H ^a   Adjei, M B ^b   Vicente, N E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Bahiagrass; Biological control; Changa; Larra bicolor; Mole crickets; Spermacoce verticillata; Steinernema scapterisci

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CRICKET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PEST CONTROL; WASP;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GREATER ANTILLES; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

GRYLLOTALPIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTIVORA; LARRA BICOLOR; ORTHOPTERA; PASPALUM NOTATUM; RHABDITIDA; SCAPTERISCUS DIDACTYLUS; SCAPTERISCUS VICINUS; SPERMACOCE VERTICILLATA; SPHECIDAE; STEINERNEMA SCAPTERISCI; STEINERNEMATIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 34147116334     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2007)90[229:MOPMCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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