Economic importance of predation by big-eyed bugs (geocoridae)

Heteroptera of Economic Importance

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 713-724

  Sweet, Merrill H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420041859     Document Type: Chapter

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