Use of shaking treatments and preharvest sprays of pyrethroid insecticides to reduce risk of yellowjackets and other insects on christmas trees imported into Hawaii

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-78

  Hollingsworth, Robert G ^a   Chastagner, Gary A ^b   Reimer, Neil J ^c   Oishi, Darcy E ^d   Landolt, Peter J ^e   Paull, Robert E ^f  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF PLANT INDUSTRY   (United States)

^d Hawaii Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Christmas trees; Permethrin; Pyrethroid insecticides; Tree shaking; Yellowjackets

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN; RAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOUGLAS FIR; INFECTION CONTROL; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WASP;

ANIMALS; HAWAII; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; PERMETHRIN; PSEUDOTSUGA; QUARANTINE; RAIN; WASPS;

ABIES ALBA; ABIES PROCERA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; VESPIDAE; VESPULA; VESPULA PENSYLVANICA;

EID: 60749121155     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/029.102.0111     Document Type: Article

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