Effect of mediterranean ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on California red scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) populations in Citrus Orchards

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 827-834

  Pekas, A ^a   Tena, A ^a   Aguilar, A ^a   Garcia Mari F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant activity; Biological control; Lasius grandis; Pheidole pallidula; Plagiolepis schmitzii

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FOREST CANOPY; INSECT; ORCHARD; PARASITISM; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FRUIT; HEMIPTERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; SPAIN; SWEET ORANGE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CITRUS SINENSIS; FRUIT; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SPAIN;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

AONIDIELLA AURANTII; CITRUS; DIASPIDIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LASIUS GRANDIS; PHEIDOLE PALLIDULA; PLAGIOLEPIS SCHMITZII;

EID: 77953150289     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09207     Document Type: Article

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