Quality and environmental factors affecting Trichogramma brassicae efficiency under field conditions

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-79

  Button, Ana ^a   Cerutti, Fabio ^a   Bigler, Franz ^a  

^a Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

efficiency; environmental factors; quality; Trichogramma brassicae

Indexed keywords

EPHESTIA; HYMENOPTERA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; TRICHOGRAMMA BRASSICAE; TRICHOGRAMMA MAIDIS; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; ZEA MAYS; EPHESTIA KEUHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE;

EGG PARASITOID; EUROPEAN CORN BORER; FIELD PERFORMANCE; MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH; PARASITISM;

EID: 0029659407     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb02016.x     Document Type: Article

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