Evolutionary and applied aspects of the behavioural ecology of the stemborer parasitoid cotesia flavipes

Insect Science and its Application

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-118

  Potting, Roel P J ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Biological control; Cotesia; Ecology; Foraging; Learning; Parasitoid; Review; Strains; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003255603     PISSN: 01919040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1742758400022220     Document Type: Article

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