Biology and biocontrol potential of Taphrocerus schaefferi Nicolay and Weiss (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), a leaf miner attacking yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus L.)
<u>Taphrocerus schaefferi</u> is a leaf miner of yellow nutsedge, a serious weed of many agronomic and horticultural crops. Beetles begin egg-laying in early June; the eggs have an incubation period of 16 days. There are three larval instars, the first two of which consume only the chlor...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54869 |