Evaluation of commercially produced Trichogramma spp. (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) for control of tomato pinworm, Keiferia lycopersicella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), on greenhouse tomatoes

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 721-731

  Shipp, J L ^a   Wang, K ^a   Ferguson, G ^b  

^a HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT;

ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GELECHIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; KEIFERA; KEIFERA LYCOPERSICELLA; KEIFERIA; KEIFERIA LYCOPERSICELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA BRASSICAE; TRICHOGRAMMA PRETIOSUM; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE;

EID: 0031775269     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent130721-5     Document Type: Article

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