Biocontrol of larval mosquitoes by Acilius sulcatus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chandra, Goutam ^a   Mandal, Samir K ^a   Ghosh, Arup K ^a   Das, Dipanwita ^a   Banerjee, Siddhartha S ^a   Chakraborty, Sumanta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACILIUS SULCATUS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BEETLE; CULEX; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CULEX; INDIA; LARVA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 55349129644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-138     Document Type: Article

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