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Methodology for Developing Life Tables for Sessile Insects in the Field Using the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, in Cotton As a Model System
 

Methodology for Developing Life Tables for Sessile Insects in the Field Using the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, in Cotton As a Model System

Article DOI: 10.3791/56150-v 09:23 min November 1st, 2017
November 1st, 2017

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Summary

Life tables allow quantification of the sources and rates of mortality in insect populations and contribute to understanding, predicting and manipulating population dynamics in agroecosystems. Methods for conducting and analyzing cohort-based life tables in the field for an insect with sessile immature life stages are presented.

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Keywords: Life Table Cohort-based Field Study Bemisia Tabaci Whitefly Cotton Immature Stages Mortality Population Dynamics Egg Cohorts Nymph Cohorts Hand Lens Vertical Distribution Lifecycle Marking Monitoring
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