Insect communities associated with beneficial insect habitat plants in North Carolina

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1541-1549

  Forehand, L M ^a   Orr, D R ^a   Linker, H M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beneficial insect habitat; Beneficial insects; Commercial insect habitat; Cut flowers

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CROP PEST; FEEDING; FLOWERING; HERBIVORE; PARASITOID; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; CELOSIA; COLEOPTERA; FOENICULUM VULGARE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; OENOTHERA; SPHINGIDAE; SPHINGOIDEA; ZINNIA;

EID: 34249105259     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2006)35[1541:ICAWBI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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