Improved rearing and release procedures for Cotesia melanoscela (Hym.: Braconidae), an early season parasitoid of Lymantria dispar (Lep.: Lymantriidae)

Entomophaga

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 471-481

  Webb, R E ^a   Venables, L ^b   Thorpe, K W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Maryland Department of Agriculture   (United States)

Author keywords

Gypsy moth; Parasitoid augmentation; Parasitoid rearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006753962     PISSN: 00138959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02769807     Document Type: Article

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