Effect of fruit substrates on parasitization of tephritid fruit flies (Diptera) by the parasitoid Biosteres arisanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 470-475

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

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

fruit fly parasitoid; fruit preference; Hymenoptera

Indexed keywords

BACTROCERA DORSALIS; BIOSTERES; BIOSTERES ARISANUS; BRACONIDAE; CAPITATA; CARICA PAPAYA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CITRUS; CITRUS AURANTIIFOLIA; CITRUS NOBILIS; CITRUS RETICULATA; CITRUS TANGELO; CITRUS X PARADISI; COFFEA ARABICA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MANGIFERA INDICA; MUSA X PARADISIACA; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; SWINGLE; TEPHRITIDAE; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 0030484184     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.2.470     Document Type: Article

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