Attract-and-kill strategy. Laboratory studies on hatched larvae of Culex pipiens

Pest Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 954-959

  Michaelakis, Antonios ^a,b   Mihou, Anastasia P ^a,b   Koliopoulos, George ^c   Couladouros, Elias A ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NCSR DEMOKRITOS   (Greece)

^c BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attract and kill strategy; Culex pipiens biotype molestus; Oviposition mosquito pheromone; Polyurea microcapsules; Slow release

Indexed keywords

6 ACETOXY 5 HEXADECANOLIDE; 6-ACETOXY-5-HEXADECANOLIDE; INSECTICIDE; PHEROMONE; POLYMER; POLYUREA; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; TEMEFOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; MOSQUITO; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DRUG EFFECT; EGG LAYING; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MICROCAPSULE; MOSQUITO;

ANIMALS; CAPSULES; CULEX; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; OVIPOSITION; PHEROMONES; POLYMERS; PYRONES; TEMEFOS;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 34548828270     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1418     Document Type: Article

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