Identification of behaviourally active components from maize volatiles for the stemborer parasitoid cotes/a flavipes cameron (hymenoptera: braconidae)

Insect Science and its Application

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-189

  Nci Song, Adele J ^a   Njagi, Peter G N ^a   Torto, Baldwyn ^a   Overholt, William A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Cliilo f'nrtcllns; Coicsia flavipes; GC EAD; Plant volatiles; Pyralidae; Tritrophic system; Zen innys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012296559     PISSN: 01919040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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