Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 9:15 AM
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Effect of light intensity on the systemic activity of neonicotinoid-based insecticides in two horticultural crops, and control of sweetpotato whitefly B-biotype, and citrus mealybug

Jessica Goebel, jmg4@ksu.edu1, Raymond A. Cloyd, rcloyd@ksu.edu2, Kimberly A. Williams, kwilliam@ksu.edu1, Frank J. Byrne, frank.byrne@ucr.edu3, and Kenneth Kemp, kkemp@ksu.edu4. (1) Kansas State University, Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources, 2021 Throckmorton Plant Science Center, Manhattan, KS, (2) Kansas State University, Department of Entomology, 239 W. Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS, (3) University of California, Department of Entomology, Riverside, CA, (4) Kansas State University, Department of Statistics, 101 Dickens Hall, Manhattan, KS



Species 1: Hemiptera Aleyrodidae Bemisia tabaci (sweet potato whitefly, silverleaf whitefly)
Species 2: Hemiptera Pseudococcidae Planococcus citri (citrus mealybug)