Figueiredo, Elisabete Tavares Lacerda de2009-07-272009-07-272007http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/1155Doutoramento em Engenharia Agronómica - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaNoctuids are key-pests on several horticultural crops, in open field and protected crops. With the aim of contributing to the development of integrated pest management for such crops an inventory of noctuids species attacking processing tomato crop was done as well as studies on risk assessment (infestation level and factors affecting decision-making, respectively, quantitative and qualitative assessments); studies on biological control methods were also carried out.porHelicoverpa armigerarisk assessmentsexual pheromonesequential samplingBaculovirustomatodoctoral thesis