Suppression of whiteflies, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and incidence of Cucurbit leaf crumple virus, a whitefly-transmitted virus of zucchini squash new to Florida, with mulches and imidacloprid

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 460-465

  Nyoike, Teresia W ^a   Liburd, Oscar E ^a   Webb, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bemisia; Cucurbit leaf crumple virus; Imidacloprid; Mulches; Tabaci; Zucchini squash

Indexed keywords

GROWING SEASON; INSECTICIDE; MULCH; PESTICIDE; VIRUS; WHITEFLY;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; BEMISIA TABACI; CUCURBIT LEAF CRUMPLE VIRUS; CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM; GEMINIVIRIDAE; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 51849156490     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2008)91[460:SOWBTH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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