Sticky traps for monitoring Pseudacteon parasitoids of Solenopsis fire ants

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 584-588

  Puckett, R T ^a   Calixto, A ^a   Barr, C L ^a   Harris, Marvin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phoridae; Pseudacteon curvatus; Pseudacteon tricuspis; PTS trap; Solenopsis invicta

Indexed keywords

INSECT ATTRACTANTS; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANT; BIOMONITORING; FLY; PARASITOID; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FLY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIPTERA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES; POPULATION DENSITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON (DIPTERAN FLY); PSEUDACTEON CURVATUS; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SOLENOPSIS SAEVISSIMA;

EID: 34250725565     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[584:STFMPP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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