Lepidoptera-specific insecticide used to suppress gypsy moth outbreaks may benefit non-target forest Lepidoptera

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 359-368

  Manderino, Rea ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^b   Haynes, Kyle J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Community resilience; Disturbance; Diversity partitioning; Lepidoptera; Pest management strategies

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA;

EID: 84911805812     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/afe.12066     Document Type: Article

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