Visual and olfactory cues used in host location by the blister beetle Hycleus apicicornis (Coleoptera: Meloidae), a pest of Desmodium (Fabaceae) species

Visual and olfactory cues used in host location by the blister beetle Hycleus apicicornis (Coleoptera: Meloidae), a pest of Desmodium (Fabaceae) species

Desmodium spp. are leguminous plants mainly used as livestock fodder. In Kenya and neighbouring countries they are also used in a „push-pull‟ strategy by smallholder farmers to protect maize (Zea mays) against two major groups of pests, stemborers (Lepidoptera) and witchweed, Striga spp., by repelli...

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Main Author: Lebesa, Lefulesele Nteletsana
Other Authors: Kruger, Kerstin
Published: University of Pretoria 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30836
Lebesa, LN 2012, Visual and olfactory cues used in host location by the blister beetle Hycleus apicicornis (Coleoptera: Meloidae), a pest of Desmodium (Fabaceae) species, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30836>
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05212013-090527/

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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30836
Lebesa, LN 2012, Visual and olfactory cues used in host location by the blister beetle Hycleus apicicornis (Coleoptera: Meloidae), a pest of Desmodium (Fabaceae) species, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30836>
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05212013-090527/

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