Development and age-specific mortality of diamondback moth on Brassica host plants: Pattern and causes of mortality under laboratory conditions

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 574-579

  Soufbaf, Mahmoud ^a   Fathipour, Yaghoub ^a   Karimzadeh, Javad ^b   Zalucki, Myron P ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age specific mortality; death frequency; Plutella xylostella

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CANOLA; CULTIVAR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENTROPY; HERB; HOST PLANT; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; MOTH; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVORSHIP;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; OKAPIA JOHNSTONI; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE;

EID: 77954306684     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/AN10010     Document Type: Article

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