Mating disruption of the ambrosia beetle Megaplatypus mutatus in poplar and hazelnut plantations using reservoir systems for pheromones

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-234

  Funes, Hernán ^a   Griffo, Raffaele ^b   Zerba, Eduardo ^a,c   Gonzalez Audino, Paola ^a,c  

^a Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas   (Argentina)

^b Servizio Fitosanitario Regione Campania   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

3 pentanol; Coleoptera; Controlled release devices; Curculionidae; Platypodinae; Sex pheromone; Sulcatol; Sulcatone

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DECIDUOUS TREE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MUTATION; PLANTATION; SEX PHEROMONE;

ARGENTINA; ITALY;

AMBROSIA; COLEOPTERA; CORYLUS; CURCULIONIDAE; PLATYPODINI;

EID: 79956096414     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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