Optimizing a basal bark spray of dinotefuran to manage armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Christmas tree plantations

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1735-1743

  Cowles, Richard S ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Armored scales; bark absorption; Christmas tree; IPM; systemic insecticide

Indexed keywords

BIFENTHRIN; DINOTEFURAN; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PYRETHROID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARK; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HEMIPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL; TREE;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUANIDINES; HEMIPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PLANT BARK; PYRETHRINS; SOIL; TREES;

ABIES ALBA; ASPIDIOTUS; CHILOCORUS STIGMA; CYBOCEPHALUS NIPPONICUS; DIASPIDIDAE; ENCARSIA CITRINA; FIORINIA EXTERNA; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 77957737376     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC10077     Document Type: Article

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