Effects of fruit fly host, fruit species, and host egg to female parasitoid ratio on the laboratory rearing of Biosteres arisanus

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-194

  Harris, Ernest J ^a   Bautista, Renato C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosteres arisanus; Braconidae; Fruit flies; Hymenoptera; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

FRUIT SPECIES; HOST SPECIES;

BACTROCERA CUCURBITAE; BACTROCERA DORSALIS; BACTROCERA LATIFRONS; BIOSTERES ARISANUS; BRACONIDAE; CARICA PAPAYA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CITRUS AURANTIIFOLIA; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MANGIFERA INDICA; MUSA SAPIENTUM; TEPHRITIDAE; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 0030478324     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00825.x     Document Type: Article

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