Do alternative host plants enhance the invasion of the maize pest Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) in Europe?

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1169-1177

  Moeser, J ^a   Vidal, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food conversion efficiency; Invasive species; Nutritional ecology; Phytosterols; Root feeding; Western corn rootworm

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HOST PLANT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; LARVA; MAIZE; PEST SPECIES;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIABROTICA; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA VIRGIFERA; GALERUCINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LILIOPSIDA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 7744234201     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.5.1169     Document Type: Article

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