Biological control by two exotic parasitoids: Eight-year population dynamics and life tables of the arrowhead scale

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-74

  Itioka, Takao ^a,b   Inoue, Tamiji ^b   Matsumoto, Takashi ^b   Ishida, Norio ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphytis yanonensis; Biological control; Citrus orchard; Coccobius fulvus; Introduced parasitoid wasps; Japan; Pest management; Unaspis yanonensis

Indexed keywords

ALISMATACEAE; APHELINIDAE; APHYTIS; APHYTIS YANONENSIS; CITRUS; CITRUS RETICULATA; CITRUS UNSHIU; COCCOBIUS; COCCOBIUS FULVUS; DIASPIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; RUTACEAE; UNASPIS; UNASPIS YANONENSIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0030838234     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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