Effects of relay-intercropping sorghum with winter wheat, alfalfa, and cotton on lady beetle (coleoptera: Coccinellidae) abundance and species composition

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 763-774

  Phoofolo, Mpho W ^a   Giles, Kristopher L ^c   Elliott, Norman C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LESOTHO   (Lesotho)

^b USDA ARS   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphids; Biological control; Coccinellidae; Relay intercropping; Sorghum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALFALFA; APHID; BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COTTON; INTERCROPPING; NATURAL ENEMY; SORGHUM; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; ALFALFA; ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COTTON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SORGHUM; WHEAT; GOSSYPIUM;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEETLES; GOSSYPIUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SORGHUM; TRITICUM;

APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHOPALOSIPHUM MAIDIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77953165520     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09122     Document Type: Article

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