Screening four exotic parasitoids as potential controls for the eastern hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria (Guenee) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 831-841

  West, R J ^a   Kenis, M ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Intl Insitute of Biological Control   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN HEMLOCK LOOPER; PARASITOID; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

AGRIOPIS AURANTIARIA; ALEIODES; ALEIODES GASTRITOR; BRACONIDAE; DUSONA; DUSONA CONTUMAX; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LAMBDINA FISCELLARIA; LAMBDINA FISCELLARIA FISCELLARIA; LEPIDOPTERA; POECILOPSIS ISABELLAE;

EID: 0031472490     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent129831-5     Document Type: Article

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