Monitoring the small hive beetle aethina tumida (coleoptera: Nitidulidae) with baited flight traps: Effect of distance from bee hives and shade on the numbers of beetles captured

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 165-166

  Arbogast, Richard T ^a   Torto, Baldwyn ^b   Teal, Peter E A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAIT; BEETLE; DETECTION METHOD; MONITORING; SHADING; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

AETHINA TUMIDA; APOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; NITIDULIDAE;

EID: 67649143214     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/024.092.0129     Document Type: Article

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