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Scale insects (Homoptera, Coccinea) in greenhouses of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden: Host plants, monitoring, and control

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A list of the coccid species damaging plants in the collection of the greenhouses of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden, Kola Peninsula, is given. The dynamics of the pests’ presence and number of their hosts since 1957, and effect of pesticides on the pests are shown.

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  1. N.A. Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (Kola Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences), Apatity, Murmansk Province, Russia

    N. S. Rak & S. V. Litvinova

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Original Russian Text © N.S. Rak, S.V. Litvinova, 2014, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2014, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 58–62.

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Rak, N.S., Litvinova, S.V. Scale insects (Homoptera, Coccinea) in greenhouses of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden: Host plants, monitoring, and control. Entmol. Rev. 94, 341–344 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873814030063

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