A comparative evaluation of Origanum onites essential oil and its four major components as larvicides against the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni Tams.

Pest Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 830-833

  Cetin, Huseyin ^a   Erler, Fedai ^a   Yanikoglu, Atila ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Essential oil; Essential oil component; Larvicide; Origanum onites; Pine processionary moth; Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA-TERPINENE; INSECTICIDE; ORIGANUM OIL; TERPENE; TERPINENE; TERPINENOL 4; TERPINENOL-4; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESSENTIAL OIL; HERB; INSECTICIDE; LABORATORY METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOTH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LARVA; MOTH;

ANIMALS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MONOTERPENES; MOTHS; OILS, VOLATILE; TERPENES; THYMOL;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM ONITES; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA; THAUMETOPOEA WILKINSONI;

EID: 34547646495     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1401     Document Type: Article

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