Release of a gregarious Muscidifurax species (hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) for the control of filth flies associated with confined beef cattle

Biological Control

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 279-284

  Petersen, J J ^a   Cawthra, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; House fly; Muscidifurax; Parasitism; Pteronalid wasps; Stable fly

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001494032     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1995.1034     Document Type: Article

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