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Field and greenhouse studies with Acalymma and Diabrotica : protection of cucurbits with a kaolin-based particle film : feeding damage to cucumbers with and without cucurbitacin

Creator:

Reich, Joel A.

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Research was conducted in the field and greenhouse to determine if a kaolinite-based particle film, Surround®, would reduce colonization and early season feeding damage in cucurbits by the Western Striped Cucumber Beetle, Acalymma trivitattum (Mannerheim). Greenhouse studies were designed to determine effect of particle film on cucumber dry weight production...

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Masters Thesis

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the damage done to melon crops in northern California by this pest and suggested control with DDT
Habitat management for beneficial insects on Willamette Valley vegetable and berry farms

Creator:

Russell, Michael C.

Abstract:

Conservation biological control involves manipulating farm landscapes or management systems to enhance populations of beneficial predators of agricultural pests. Farmscaping is one aspect of conservation biological control where predators of important pests are identified, the availability on the farm landscape of resources and habitat components needed by the beneficials to...

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Dissertation

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parasitoid abundance and their associated pest control services. There is little information on the