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Russian Thistle as an Alternate Host to Economically Important Insects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Richard D. Goeden*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Control, University of California Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station, Riverside

Abstract

A survey of the phytophagous insect fauna of Russian thistle (Salsola kali L., var. tenuifolia Tausch) showed that this weed serves as an alternate feeding and/or breeding host to a number of economically important insects in southern California.

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Copyright
Copyright © 1968 Weed Science Society of America 

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