Life history parameters and scale-cover surface area of Aonidiella aurantii are altered in a mating disruption environment: Implications for biological control

Pest Management Science

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1092-1097

  Vanaclocha, Pilar ^a   Vacas, Sandra ^b   Alfaro, Cristina ^b   Primo, Jaime ^b   Verdú, María J ^a   Navarro Llopis, Vicente ^b   Urbaneja, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

California red scale; Natural enemies; Pheromone; Reproductive parameters; Scale cover surface area

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FECUNDITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; MATING DISRUPTION; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST SPECIES; PHEROMONE TRAP; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BODY SIZE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMIPTERA; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AONIDIELLA AURANTII;

EID: 84862169643     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3273     Document Type: Article

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