Wireworm management I: Stand protection versus wireworm mortality with wheat seed treatments

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2126-2136

  Vernon, Robert S ^a   Herk, Willem G Van ^a   Clodius, Markus ^a   Harding, Chantelle ^a  

^a SUMMERLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neonicotinoids; Pyrethroids; Seed treatments; Wheat; Wireworms

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOMASS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT SEED; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOMASS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; SEEDS; TRITICUM;

COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 72449135787     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/029.102.0616     Document Type: Article

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