Notes on fruit damage by the European paper wasp, polistes dominula (Christ) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Southwestern Entomologist

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-105

  Cranshaw, W S ^a   Larsen Jr , H J ^a   Zimmerman, R J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM; VESPIDAE; VITACEAE; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 79954448458     PISSN: 01471724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3958/059.036.0110     Document Type: Article

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