Host locating behaviour of Leschenaultia exul and Patelloa pachypyga: Two tachinid parasitoids of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-168

  Mondor, Edward B ^a,b   Roland, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diptera; Forest tent caterpillar; Host searching; Leschenaultia exul; Malacosoma disstria; Parasitoid; Patelloa pachypyga

Indexed keywords

FOREST TENT CATERILLAR; HOST LOCATION; PARASITOID;

CANADA;

DIPTERA; LASIOCAMPIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LESCHENAULTIA; LESCHENAULTIA EXUL; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; PATELLOA; PATELLOA PACHYPYGA; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SALICACEAE; SALIX; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 0030725879     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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