Incidence of Turf-damaging white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and associated pathogens and parasitoids on Kentucky golf courses

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1838-1847

  Redmond, Carl T ^a   Potter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclocephala; Paenibacillus; Popillia japonica; Serratia; Stictospora

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BEETLE; NATURAL ENEMY; NEMATODE; PARASITOID; PATHOGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PAENIBACILLUS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEASON; SERRATIA; SPORT; UNITED STATES; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; GOLF; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; KENTUCKY; LARVA; METARHIZIUM; PAENIBACILLUS; POACEAE; SEASONS; SERRATIA; WASPS;

KENTUCKY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; CYCLOCEPHALA; CYCLOCEPHALA BOREALIS; CYCLOCEPHALA LURIDA; MELOLONTHINAE; METARHIZIUM; MICROSPORIDIA; NEMATODA; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLLOPHAGA; POACEAE; POPILLIA JAPONICA; SCARABAEIDAE; SERRATIA; TIPHIA PYGIDIALIS; TIPHIA VERNALIS;

EID: 79251481529     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10172     Document Type: Article

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