Effect of African nightshade species (Solanaceae) on developmental time and life table parameters of Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-27

  Murungi, Lucy Kananu ^a,b   Nyende, Aggrey ^a   Wesonga, John ^a   Masinde, Peter ^a   Knapp, Markus ^b,c  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c Koppert Biological Systems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Demographic parameters; Host plants; Solanum sp.; Tetranychus evansi

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HERB; HOST PLANT; LONGEVITY; MITE; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TETRANYCHIDAE; TIME; SOLANACEAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEX RATIO; SOLANACEAE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TETRANYCHIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

ACARI; ARANEAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM; SOLANUM AMERICANUM; SOLANUM SCABRUM; SOLANUM VILLOSUM; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI;

EID: 77955170851     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-010-9350-3     Document Type: Article

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