Three non-toxic insect traps useful in trapping wasps enemies of honey bees

Bulletin of Insectology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-145

  Bacandritsos, Nicolaos ^a   Papanastasiou, Iosif ^a   Saitanis, Costas ^b   Roinioti, Erifylli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fish; Glue; Greece; Meat; Trap; Vespa orientalis; Vespula germanica

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPA ORIENTALIS; VESPINAE; VESPULA GERMANICA;

EID: 77952148102     PISSN: 17218861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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