Contribution of biological control to integrated pest management of tephritid fruit flies in the tropics and subtropics

Integrated Pest Management Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 63-83

  Purcell, Mary F ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Behavioural ecology; Biological control; Biosteres; Classical biological control; Coptera; Diachasmimorpha; Dispersal; Host habitat location; Integrated pest management; Mass rearing; Parasitoids; Psyttalia; Quality control; Tephritidae; Tetrastichus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002660122     PISSN: 13535226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009647429498     Document Type: Article

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