Risk of damage to tomato crops by the generalist zoophytophagous predator Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-115

  Arno J ^a   Castane C ^a   Riudavets, J ^a   Gabarra, R ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological control; Crop damage; Omnivore; Population dynamics; Whitefly

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP DAMAGE; CROP PEST; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; GENERALIST; GROWTH RATE; INSECTICIDE; MOTH; OMNIVORY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SUMMER; WHITEFLY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MIRIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TOMATO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 77949728571     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485309006841     Document Type: Article

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