Foraging behavior and prey interactions by a guild of predators on various lifestages of Bemisia tabaci

The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is fed on by a wide variety of generalist predators, but there is little information on these predator-prey interactions. A laboratory investigation was conducted to quantify the foraging behavior of the adults of five common whitefly predators pr...

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Main Authors: James R. Hagler, Charles G. Jackson, Rufus Isaacs, Scott A. Machtley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2004-01-01
Series:Journal of Insect Science
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Online Access:http://www.insectscience.org/4.1/