Long-distance assessment of patch profitability through volatile infochemicals by the parasitoids Cotesia glomerata and C. rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-121

  Geervliet, Jacqueline B F ^a   Ariëns, Sybrand ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Vet, Louise E M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brassica; Cotesia glomerata; Cotesia rubecula; Experience; Host finding behavior; Infochemical use; Learning; Phenotypic plasticity; Pieris; Preference induction; Tropaeolum

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL;

BRACONIDAE; BRASSICA; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HYMENOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PIERIS; TROPAEOLACEAE; TROPAEOLUM;

EID: 0032007734     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1997.0585     Document Type: Article

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