Voracity and prey preference of insidious flower bug (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) for immature stages of soybean aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 964-972

  Butler, Casey D ^a,b   O'Neil, Robert J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Insidious flower bug; Preference; Prey consumption; Soybean aphid; Soybean thrips

Indexed keywords

APHID; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; INSECT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PREY PREFERENCE; THRIPS;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROPTERA; INSECT; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; HETEROPTERA; INSECTS; NYMPH; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANTHOCORIDAE; APHIDIDAE; APHIS GLYCINES; GLYCINE MAX; HEMIPTERA; NEOHYDATOTHRIPS; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS; THRIPIDAE; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 50949122727     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[964:VAPPOI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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