Invasive Japanese beetles facilitate aggregation and injury by a native scarab pest of ripening fruits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3686-3691

  Hammons, Derrick L ^a   Kurtural, S Kaan ^b,c   Newman, Melissa C ^b   Potter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotinis nitida; Facilitation; Invasive species; Popillia japonica; Tritrophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BERRY; COTINIS NITIDA; FERMENTATION; FRUIT RIPENING; GRAPE; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PEST INSECT; POPILLIA JAPONICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; VITIS; VOLATILIZATION; YEASTS;

COLEOPTERA; COTINIS NITIDA; POPILLIA JAPONICA; VITACEAE; VITIS;

EID: 62649147823     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811097106     Document Type: Article

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