Host plants of the tarnished plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) in Central Texas

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 725-730

  Esquivel, J F ^a   Mowery, S V ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton; Host plants; Lygus lineolaris; Tarnished plant bug

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COTTON; HOST PLANT; REPRODUCTION; WEED;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPTERA; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPTERA; NYMPH; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEXAS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA; AMBROSIA TRIFIDA; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS GRANDIS; CONYZA; CONYZA CANADENSIS; GLYCINE MAX; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HETEROPTERA; LAMIUM AMPLEXICAULE; LYGUS; LYGUS LINEOLARIS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MIRIDAE; RAPISTRUM RUGOSUM; RATIBIDA; RATIBIDA COLUMNIFERA; SISYMBRIUM IRIO;

EID: 34548168564     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[725:HPOTTP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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