Supplemental diets containing yeast, sucrose, and soy powder enhance the survivorship, growth, and development of prey-limited cursorial spiders

Biological Control

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Patt, Joseph M ^a   Pfannenstiel, Robert S ^a   Meikle, William G ^a   Adamczyk, John J ^a  

^a KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anyphaenidae; Artificial diet; Conservation biological control; Hibana futilis; Mass rearing; Nectarivory; Nutritional ecology; Omnivory; Sac spider

Indexed keywords

ANYPHAENIDAE; ARANEAE; CLUBIONIDAE; GLYCINE MAX; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HIBANA FUTILIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84858388947     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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