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Lepidopteran larva consumption of soybean foliage: basis for developing multiple-species economic thresholds for pest management decisions.
Pest management science - 1 Feb 2011
Bueno Regiane Cristina Oliveira de Freitas, Bueno Adeney de Freitas, Moscardi Flávio, Parra José Roberto Postali, Hoffmann-Campo Clara Beatriz
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BACKGROUND: Defoliation by Anticarsia gemmatalis (Hübner), Pseudoplusia includens (Walker), Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), S. cosmioides (Walker) and S. frugiperda (JE Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) was evaluated in four soybean genotypes. A multiple-species economic threshold (ET), based upon the species' feeding capacity, is proposed with the aim of improving growers' management decisions on when to initiate...
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