Extrafloral nectar in an apple ecosystem to enhance biological control

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1657-1664

  Brown, M W ^a   Mathews, Clarissa R ^b   Krawczyk, Greg ^c  

^a Appalachian Fruit Research Station   (United States)

^b SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; conservation biological control; extrafloral nectar; Goniozus floridanus; Platynota idaeusalis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPLE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; NECTAR; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRUNUS; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MALUS; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT NECTAR; PRUNUS;

BETHYLIDAE; GONIOZUS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PENTATOMIDAE; PLATYNOTA IDAEUSALIS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA; QUADRASPIDIOTUS PERNICIOSUS; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 77957724725     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC10019     Document Type: Article

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