Control of arbovirus vector Verrallina funerea (Diptera: Culicidae) in Southeast Queensland, Australia

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1512-1518

  Jeffery, Jason A L ^a   Kay, Brian H ^a   Ryan, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergence inhibition; Insecticides; Sublethal; Survival

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHOPRENE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIPROXYFEN; TEMEFOS;

ANIMAL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; BACILLUS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MALE; METHOPRENE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PYRIDINES; QUEENSLAND; TEMEFOS;

ARBOVIRUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; BARMAH FOREST VIRUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; VERRALLINA FUNEREA;

EID: 35649017196     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[1512:COAVVF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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