Association of Ovavesicula popilliae (Microsporida: Ovavesiculidae) with winter mortality of larvae and reduced fecundity of female Japanese beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 589-596

  Smitley, David R ^a   Jo, Young Ki ^b   Hudson, Ian ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

golf courses; introduction; Ovavesicula popilliae; Popillia japonica; turfgrass

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTE; FECUNDITY; FEMALE; GRASS; IMIDACLOPRID; INFECTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MICROSPORIDIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MICROSPORIDA;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; POACEAE; POPILLIA JAPONICA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 79958697725     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10241     Document Type: Article

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