An evaluation of methods for assessing the impacts of Bt-maize MON810 cultivation and pyrethroid insecticide use on Auchenorrhyncha (planthoppers and leafhoppers)

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-339

  Rauschen, Stefan ^a   Eckert, Jörg ^a   Schaarschmidt, Frank ^b   Schuphan, Ingolf ^a   Gathmann, Achim ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bt maize; Insecticide effect; MON810; Nontarget organisms; Zyginidia scutellaris

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ARTHROPODA; AUCHENORRHYNCHA; CICADELLIDAE; CLYPEORRHYNCHA; SCUTELLARIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 53749086059     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2008.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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