Plant preference in relation to life history traits in the zoophytophagous predator Dicyphus hesperus

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-19

  Sanchez, Juan Antonio ^a,c,d   Gillespie, David R ^a,d   McGregor, Robert R ^b,d  

^a SUMMERLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS COLLEGE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO MURCIANO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO Y ALIMENTARIO IMIDA   (Spain)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host plant selection; Miridae; Oviposition preference; Performance; Predatory heteroptera

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OVIPOSITION; PREDATOR;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; ARTHROPODA; ASTERACEAE; CAPSICUM; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM CORONARIUM; DICYPHUS; DICYPHUS HESPERUS; FABACEAE; HETEROPTERA; KUEHNIELLA; LAMIACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MIRIDAE; NEPETA; NEPETA CATARIA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); POACEAE; PYRALIDAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SOLANACEAE; STACHYS; STACHYS ALBOTOMENTOSA; VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM THAPSUS; VICIA; VICIA FABA; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 3543099874     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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