Ecology and management of the leafroller (Tortricidae) complex over ten years during establishment of an organic pipfruit orchard in Central Otago, New Zealand

Crop Protection

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-93

  Wearing, C H ^a   Marshall, R R ^a   Attfield, B A ^a   Colhoun, K ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological control; Leafroller; Lightbrown apple moth; Organic pipfruit production; Phenology; Species composition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIUM; BAIT; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP DAMAGE; CROP PEST; CROP PLANT; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOPARASITE; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; FUNGICIDE; HORTICULTURE; LARVA; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORTALITY; MOTH; ORCHARD; ORGANIC FARMING; PARASITOID; PHENOLOGY; PHEROMONE TRAP;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRACONIDAE; CTENOPSEUSTIS OBLIQUANA; EPIPHYAS POSTVITTANA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PLANOTORTRIX OCTO; PYRUS; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 84155173476     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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