Demography of the leafminer parasitoid Ganaspidium utilis beardsley (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae) at different temperatures

Biological Control

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-34

  Omer, Amir D ^a,b   Johnson, Marshall W ^a   Tabashnik, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

demography; Ganaspidium utilis; Insecta; leafminer; temperature

Indexed keywords

GANASPIDIUM UTILIS;

EID: 0030087528     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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