Influence of sticky trap color and height above ground on capture of alate elatobium abietinum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in sitka pruce plantations

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-125

  Straw, Nigel A ^a   Williams, David T ^a   Green, Gillian ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ight activity; color response; Elatobium abietinu; Sitka spruce; sticky traps

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIOMONITORING; CANOPY; CAPTURE METHOD; CEREAL; COLOR; CONIFEROUS TREE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRASS; HEIGHT; HERB; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PIGMENT; PLANTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; COLOR; EVALUATION; INSECT CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRUCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; COLOR; INSECT CONTROL; PICEA; WALES;

APHIDIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ELATOBIUM; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; HEMIPTERA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; POACEAE;

EID: 79951591710     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09344     Document Type: Article

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