Mating biology of Austromusotima camptozonale (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), a potential biological control agent of old world climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum (Schizaeaceae)

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 509-517

  Boughton, Anthony J ^a   Wu, Judy ^a   Pemberton, Robert W ^a  

^a INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Austromusotima camptozonale; Lygodium microphyllum; Mating biology

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; COLONIZATION; FERN; INVASIVE SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; SEX RATIO; WEED CONTROL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AUSTROMUSOTIMA CAMPTOZONALE; CRAMBIDAE; FILICOPHYTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYGODIUM MICROPHYLLUM; SCHIZAEACEAE;

EID: 34948867157     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2007)90[509:MBOACL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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