Impact of trap architecture, adjacent habitats, abiotic factors, and host plant phenology on captures of plum curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) adults

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 737-744

  Lafleur, Gérald ^a,b   Chouinard, Gerald ^a   Vincent, Charles ^a,c   Cormier, Daniel ^a  

^a Institut de recherche et de developpement en agroenvironnement   (Canada)

^b Horticulture Research and Development Centre ^*  (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apple; Conotrachelus nenuphar; Highbush blueberry; Traps

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPLE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BLUEBERRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BLUEBERRY PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT CONTROL; MALUS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

COLEOPTERA; CONOTRACHELUS NENUPHAR; CURCULIONIDAE; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM;

EID: 34250783210     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[737:IOTAAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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