Effects of Sugar Spray and Aphid Honeydew on Field Populations of the Parasitoid Bathyplectes curculionis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1563-1568

  Jacob, Helen S ^a   Evans, Edward W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Aphid honeydew; Bathyplectes curculionis; Biological control; Foraging behavior; Hypera postica

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BATHYPLECTES; BATHYPLECTES CURCULIONIS; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; HYPERA POSTICA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PISUM SATIVUM; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0001734024     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.6.1563     Document Type: Article

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