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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 150418, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/150418
Research Article

Incorporating a Sorghum Habitat for Enhancing Lady Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Cotton

P. G. Tillman1 and T. E. Cottrell2

1USDA, ARS, Crop Protection and Management Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, GA 31793, USA
2USDA, ARS, Southeastern Fruit & Tree Nut Research Laboratory, 21 Dunbar Road, Byron, GA 31008, USA

Received 27 September 2011; Accepted 29 November 2011

Academic Editor: Ai-Ping Liang

Copyright © 2012 P. G. Tillman and T. E. Cottrell. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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