Billbug (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) species composition, abundance, seasonal activity, and developmental time in Florida

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 309-314

  Huang, T A I ^a   Buss, Eileen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Billbugs; Developmental time; Seasonal phenology; Sphenorphorus venatus vestitus; Turfgrass

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; CYNODON; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PERIODICITY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; UNITED STATES; WEEVIL;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CYNODON; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLORIDA; MALE; OVUM; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; WEEVILS;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; CYNODON (ANGIOSPERM); CYNODON DACTYLON; POACEAE; SPHENOPHORUS; SPHENOPHORUS VENATUS VESTITUS; ZOYSIA JAPONICA;

EID: 60749123284     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/029.102.0141     Document Type: Article

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