Host-range testing of Eucryptorrhynchus brandti (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a candidate for biological control of tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 118-124

  Herrick, N J ^a   McAvoy, T J ^b   Snyder, A L ^b   Salom, S M ^b   Kok, L T ^b  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ailanthus altissima; classical biological control; Eucryptorrhynchus brandti; host specicity; invasive species

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DECIDUOUS TREE; HOST RANGE; HOST SPECIFICITY; INOCULATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; OVIPOSITION;

AILANTHUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CHINA; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WEEVIL;

AILANTHUS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; CHINA; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; UNITED STATES; WEEVILS;

CHINA; UNITED STATES;

AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; CITRUS LIMON; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; LEITNERIA FLORIDANA; SIMAROUBA GLAUCA;

EID: 84856898676     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11153     Document Type: Review

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