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Effects of the Insect Growth Regulators Methoxyfenozide and Pyriproxyfen on Adult Diapause in Sunn Pest Eurygaster integriceps (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)
A. Amiri1 , A. R. Bandani 1, A. Darvishzadeh1
1- Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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The Sunn pest is a serious pest of cereals causing severe damage to cereals especially of wheat. Its life cycle has two different phases, one is growth and development phase and the other is diapause phase which takes place in adult stage. In this study the effects of juvenile hormone analogue pyriproxyfen, ecdysone analogue methoxyfenozide and mixture of pyriproxyfen and methoxyfenozide on diapause termination of
Keywords: Eurygaster integriceps, methoxyfenozide, pyriproxyfen, diapause
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Received: 2010/11/28 | Accepted: 2011/09/21 | Published: 2012/09/8
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