Efforts to establish a foliage-feeding moth, Austromusotima camptozonale, against Lygodium microphyllum in Florida, considered in the light of a retrospective review of establishment success of weed biocontrol agents belonging to different arthropod taxa

Biological Control

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-36

  Boughton, Anthony J ^a   Pemberton, Robert W ^a  

^a INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Austromusotima camptozonale; Biological control; Herbivore fauna; Lepidopteran agents; Lygodium microphyllum; Rates of establishment

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; AUSTROMUSOTIMA CAMPTOZONALE; CUPRESSUS; FILICOPHYTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYGODIUM MICROPHYLLUM; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 51449123627     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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