Control of the sugarcane click beetle Melanotus okinawensis Ohira (Coleoptera: Elateridae) by mass trapping using synthetic sex pheromone on Ikei Island, Okinawa, Japan

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-47

  Arakaki, Norio ^a   Nagayama, Atsushi ^a   Kobayashi, Aya ^a   Kishita, Mitsunobu ^a   Sadoyama, Yasutsune ^a   Mougi, Noriaki ^a   Kawamura, Futoshi ^b   Wakamura, Sadao ^c   Yamamura, Kohji ^d  

^a OKINAWA PREFECTURAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center Miyakojima   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Funnel trap; Male removal rate; Mass trapping; Mating rates; Population estimate

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; MELANOTUS OKINAWENSIS;

EID: 45749084831     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2008.37     Document Type: Article

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