Use of a Factitious Host and Supplemented Adult Diet to Rear and Induce Oogenesis in Catolaccus grandis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 499-507

  Rojas, M G ^a   Morales Ramos, J A ^a   King, E G ^a   Saldana G ^a   Greenberg, S M ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthonomus g. grandis; Biological control; Callosobruchus maculatus; Catolaccus grandis; Factitious host

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001082680     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.2.499     Document Type: Article

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