Insect visitation to flowering hybrid carrot seed crops

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-93

  Gaffney, A ^a   Allen, G R ^a   Brown, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Cytoplasmically male sterile; Muscoidea; Phyllotocus; Pollination; Syrphidae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CYTOPLASM; FLOWER VISITING; FLOWERING; HONEYBEE; HYBRID; MORPHOLOGY; NECTAR; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; ROOT VEGETABLE; SEED; STERILITY; THRIPS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

APIS MELLIFERA; BRACHYCERA; CANTHARIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DAUCUS CAROTA; HEXAPODA; MUSCOIDEA; SCARABAEUS; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 79959860861     PISSN: 01140671     EISSN: 11758783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01140671.2010.526619     Document Type: Article

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