Degree-day requirements for eight economically important grasshoppers (orthoptera: Acrididae) in nebraska using field data

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1521-1528

  Brust, Mathew L ^a   Hoback, W Wyatt ^b   Wright, Robert J ^c  

^a CHADRON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree day; Grasshopper development; Phenology; Rangeland

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH REGULATOR; PEST CONTROL; PHENOLOGY; RANGELAND;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ACRIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; GRASSHOPPERS; NEBRASKA; PERIODICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449107461     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0521     Document Type: Article

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