Pollen on-twine for food provisioning and oviposition of predatory mites in protected crops

BioControl

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 307-317

  Adar, Einat ^a,b   Inbar, Moshe ^a   Gal, Shira ^b   Gan Mor, Samuel ^b   Palevsky, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amblyseius swirskii; Biological control; Conservation; Euseius scutalis; Natural enemies; Phytoseiidae

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MITE; NATURAL ENEMY; OVIPOSITION; POLLEN; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; VEGETABLE;

ACARI; AMBLYSEIUS SWIRSKII; CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS; EUSEIUS SCUTALIS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84901310997     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10526-014-9563-1     Document Type: Article

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