Increased control of thrips and aphids in greenhouses with two species of generalist predatory bugs involved in intraguild predation

Biological Control

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Messelink, Gerben J ^a   Janssen, Arne ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological control; Coexistence; Frankliniella occidentalis; Intraguild predation; Macrolophus pygmaeus; Myzus persicae; Orius laevigatus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906494425     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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