Combining vegetable oil and sub-lethal concentrations of Imidacloprid with Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae against adult guava weevil Conotrachelus psidii (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 665-673

  Brito, Eliane Souza ^a   De Paula, Adriano Rodrigues ^a   Vieira, Laerciana Pereira ^a   Dolinski, Claudia ^a   Samuels, Richard Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adjuvants; Efficiency; Fungus; Insect; Insecticide; Oil

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EVERGREEN TREE; FUNGUS; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; PESTICIDE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; VEGETABLE OIL;

BEAUVERIA; COLEOPTERA; CONOTRACHELUS; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; CURCULIONIDAE; FUNGI; HELIANTHUS; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; PSIDIUM;

EID: 52949151170     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: 13600478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583150802195965     Document Type: Article

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