Fitness consequences of superparasitism and mechanism of host discrimination in the stemborer parasitoid Cotesia flavipes

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 341-348

  Potting, R P J ^a,b   Snellen, H M ^a   Vet, L E M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Braconidae; fitness; host discrimination; Hymenoptera; mortality risk; parasitoid; patch marking; stemborer; superparasitism

Indexed keywords

COTESIA FLAVIPES; BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

FITNESS; HOST DISCRIMINATION; MORTALITY RISK; PARASITOID; STEM BORER; SUPERPARASITISM;

EID: 0030619557     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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