Volatile infochemicals used in host and host habitat location by cotesia flavipes cameron and cotesia sesamiae (cameron) (hymenoptera: braconidae), larval parasitoids of stemborers on graminae

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 307-323

  Ngi Song, Adele J ^a   Overholt, William A ^b   Njagi, Peter G N ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^b   Ayertey, Jonathan N ^c   Lwande, Wilbert ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Ghana   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cereals; Cotesia flavipes; Cotesia sesamiae; Host habitat location; Host location; Hymenoptera. Braconidae; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Parasitoid; Pyralidae; Stemborers; Y tube olfactometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000757041     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02055101     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. ARTHUR, A.P. 1981. Host acceptance by parasitoids, pp. 97-120, in D.A. Nordlund, R.L. Jones, and W. J. Lewis (eds.). Semiochemicals: Their Role in Pest Control. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
2. DICKE, M. 1994. Local and systemic production of volatile herbivore-induced terpenoids: Their role in plant-carnivore mutualism. J. Plant Physiol. 143:465-472.