Relationships between insect predator populations and their prey, Thrips tabaci, in onion fields grown in large-scale and small-scale cropping systems

BioControl

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 739-748

  Fok, Elaine J ^a   Petersen, Jessica D ^a   Nault, Brian A ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Allium cepa L; Biological control; Onion thrips; Predators; Thripidae; Thysanoptera

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROPPING PRACTICE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; THRIPS; VEGETABLE;

AEOLOTHRIPIDAE; ALLIUM CEPA; HEXAPODA; THRIPIDAE; THRIPS TABACI; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 85027932047     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: 15738248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10526-014-9612-9     Document Type: Article

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