Ant-exclusion to promote biological control of soft scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae) on woody landscape plants

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1829-1837

  Vanek, Sarah J ^a   Potter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidae; Conservation biological control; Eulecanium cerasorum; Formicidae; Neolecanium cornuparvum

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DICOTYLEDON; ENDEMIC SPECIES; LARVA; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST CONTROL; SPIDER;

ACER; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HEMIPTERA; MAGNOLIACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HEMIPTERA; KENTUCKY; MAGNOLIA; NYMPH; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

KENTUCKY; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; ARANEAE; CHRYSOPERLA RUFILABRIS; CHRYSOPIDAE; COCCIDAE; COCCOIDEA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICA SUBSERICEA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; LOESELIASTRUM; MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIA STELLATA; MAGNOLIACEAE;

EID: 79251518654     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10093     Document Type: Article

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