Effect of temperature and commodity on insecticidal efficacy of spinosad dust against Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 976-981

  Athanassiou, Christos G ^a   Kavallieratos, Nickolas G ^b   Chintzoglou, George J ^a   Peteinatos, Gerassimos G ^a   Boukouvala, Maria C ^c   Petrou, Stamatina S ^c   Panoussakis, Emmanouel C ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Grains; Rhyzopertha dominica; Sitophilus oryzae; Spinosad

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BEETLE; CEREAL; DRUG EFFECT; DUST; ECONOMICS; MAIZE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; RICE; TEMPERATURE; WEEVIL; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CEREALS; DUST; HORDEUM; INSECTICIDES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; TEMPERATURE; TRITICUM; WEEVILS; ZEA MAYS;

BOSTRICHIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; ORYZA SATIVA; RHYZOPERTHA DOMINICA; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 46849083064     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493(2008)101[976:EOTACO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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