Efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi against soil-dwelling life stages of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, in plant-growing media

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-87

  Ansari, M A ^a   Brownbridge, M ^b   Shah, F A ^a   Butt, T M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Bioassay; Fipronil; Imidacloprid; Metarhizium anisopliae; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus; Pupae; Thripidae; Thysanoptera

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; MORTALITY; THRIPS;

BEAUVERIA; BULNESIA SARMIENTI; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FRANKLINIELLA OCCIDENTALIS; FUNGI; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; PAECILOMYCES FUMOSOROSEUS; THRIPIDAE; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 42449101814     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00674.x     Document Type: Article

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