Buttercup squash provides a marketable alternative to Blue Hubbard as a trap crop for control of striped cucumber beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1953-1960

  Cavanagh, Andrew F ^a   Adler, Lynn S ^a   Hazzard, Ruth V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acalymma vittatum; butternut squash; Cucurbita maxima; integrated pest management (IPM); pollination

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

AGROINDUSTRY; BEETLE; DICOTYLEDON; HERBIVORY; HONEYBEE; INSECTICIDE; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; PEST DAMAGE; POLLINATION; TRAP CROP;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERBIVORY; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLLINATION; SQUASH;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CUCURBITA; HERBIVORY; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; POLLINATION;

UNITED STATES;

ACALYMMA VITTATUM; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; HEXAPODA; JUGLANS CINEREA; PEPONAPIS PRUINOSA; RANUNCULUS;

EID: 79251491059     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10056     Document Type: Article

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