Host location and acceptance by Cotesia flavipes Cameron and C. sesamiae (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), parasitoids of african gramineous stemborers: Role of frass and other host cues

Biological Control

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-142

  Ngi Song, Adele J ^a   Overholt, William A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Cotesia flavipes; Cotesia sesamiae; Frass; Host acceptance; Host location; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Pyralidae; Stemborer; T t ube olfactometer

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; CHILO ORICHALCOCILIELLUS; CHILO PARTELLUS; COTESIA FLAVIPES; COTESIA SESAMIAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; PYRALIDAE; SESAMIA CALAMISTIS; SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031170894     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1997.0524     Document Type: Article

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