Effects of Pieris host species on life history parameters in a solitary specialist and gregarious generalist parasitoid (Cotesia species)

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-152

  Brodeur, Jacques ^a   Geervliet, Jacqueline B F ^b   Vet, Louise E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Cotesia; Host specificity; Host suitability; Parasitoid; Pieridae; Pieris

Indexed keywords

HOST SUITABILITY; HOST-PARASITOID RELATIONSHIP; PARASITOID WASP;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA GLOMERTA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS NAPI; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 0031912274     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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