Response of Two Opiine Fruit Fly Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to the Lantana Gall Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1428-1437

  Duan, Jian J ^a   Messing, Russell H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Braconidae; Gall flies; Nontarget effects; Parasitoids; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000765082     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.6.1428     Document Type: Article

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