Understanding the ghost of Cactoblastis past: Historical clarifications on a poster child of classical biological control

BioScience

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 699-705

  Raghu, S ^a   Walton, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cactoblastis cactorum; Invasive species; Opuntia; Risk

Indexed keywords

CACTACEAE; CACTOBLASTIS; CACTOBLASTIS CACTORUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPUNTIA;

EID: 34548671877     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B570810     Document Type: Review

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