Biological responses of rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to steinernema carpocapsae (Nematoda: Steinernematidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1582-1589

  Manachini, Barbara ^a   Schillaci, Domenico ^a   Arizza, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

biological control; median lethal dose; median lethal time; minimum inhibitory concentration; total hemocyte count

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BLOOD CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WEEVIL; XENORHABDUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; HEMOCYTES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEMATODA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; WEEVILS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84881643188     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC13031     Document Type: Article

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