Sugar as nutritional supplement for the zoophytophagous predator Nesidiocoris tenuis

BioControl

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-64

  Urbaneja Bernat, Pablo ^a   Alonso, Miquel ^a   Tena, Alejandro ^a   Bolckmans, Karel ^b   Urbaneja, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b Koppert BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ephestia kuehniella; Hydrocapsules; Inoculative releases; Mass rearing; Miridae; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; INOCULATION; INSECT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; HEMIPTERA; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MIRIDAE; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 84872607878     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10526-012-9466-y     Document Type: Article

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