Laboratory studies of variations in feeding behaviors among lygus hesperus (Hemiptera: Miridae) of different gender and reproductive states

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-373

  Cooper, W Rodney ^a   Spurgeon, Dale W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

cotton; feeding behavior; Gossypium; Lygus; western tarnished plant bug

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROP DAMAGE; CROP PEST; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; INJURY; INSECT; LABORATORY METHOD; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE LOCATION; MOVEMENT; OVIPOSITION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

UNITED STATES;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEMIPTERA; LYGUS; LYGUS HESPERUS; LYGUS LINEOLARIS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 79953872268     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10149     Document Type: Article

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