Temperature-dependent development of chilocorus bipustulatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1352-1358

  Eliopoulos, P A ^a   Kontodimas, D C ^b   Stathas, G J ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

Author keywords

biological control; Chilocorus bipustulatus; development; temperature; thermal constant

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; OVIPOSITION; PREDATOR; REARING; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

CHILOCORUS BIPUSTULATUS; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77955348091     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09364     Document Type: Article

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