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Feeding of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, on Bt transgenic cotton and it...
Zanuncio, José Cola; Ramalho, Francisco de Sousa; Azeredo, Tiago L.; Nascimento, Antônio Rogério Bezerra de; Fernandes, Francisco SalesStudies on insect food intake and utilization are important for determining the degree of insect ⁄ plant association and host species’ resistance, and also for helping design pest management programs by providing estimates of potential economic losses, techniques for mass breeding of insects, and identifying physiological differences between species. We studied the feeding and development of fall armyworm, Spod...
Assessment of the attack of Hyadaphis foeniculi (Passerini) (Hemiptera: Aphidid...
Zanuncio, José Cola; Ramalho, Francisco de Sousa; Malaquias, José Bruno; Brito, Bárbara Davis dos Santos; Fernandes, Francisco SalesThe fennel aphids, Hyadaphis foeniculi (Passerini) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) attack umbels and may thus, cause to failure of fruit setting and also attack during the phase of seed development. Our research investigated the severity of biomass, seed and essential oil damages related to infestation by the fennel aphid, H. foeniculi in fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller) plots and plots of fennel intercropped with cot...
Parasitism-mediated prey selectivity in laboratory conditions and implications ...
Fernandes, Francisco Sales