Mortality of four stored product pests in stored wheat when exposed to doses of three entomopathogenic nematodes

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 977-984

  Athanassiou, Christos G ^a   Kavallieratos, Nickolas G ^b   Menti, Hara ^c   Karanastasi, Eirini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c Municipality of Kifissia ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Rhyzopertha dominica; Steinernema carpocapsae; Steinernema feltiae; Stored product pests kuehniella

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; LARVA; MOTH; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; LARVA; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RHABDITIDA; TRITICUM;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; BOSTRICHIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HETERORHABDITIDAE; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; PYRALIDAE; RHYZOPERTHA DOMINICA; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; STEINERNEMATIDAE; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77953029923     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC09202     Document Type: Article

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