Microencapsulated pear ester enhances insecticide efficacy in walnuts for codling moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and navel orangeworm (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1309-1315

  Light, Douglas M ^a   Knight, Alan L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

adjuvant; Insecticide management; kairomone; organophosphate; pyrethroid

Indexed keywords

DECANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ETHYL 2,4 DECADIENOATE; ETHYL-2,4-DECADIENOATE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG FORMULATION; EVALUATION; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; WALNUT;

ANIMALS; DECANOATES; DRUG COMPOUNDING; INSECTICIDES; JUGLANS; MOTHS; PESTICIDE SYNERGISTS;

AMYELOIS TRANSITELLA; CYDIA POMONELLA; GRANULOVIRUS; JUGLANS; JUGLANS REGIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; PYRUS; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 80051707909     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC11058     Document Type: Article

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