Age-related fecundity and learning ability of the egg-larval parasitoid Ascogaster reticulatus Watanabe (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-181

  Honda, Toshihito ^a   Kainoh, Yooichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adoxophyes sp.; Age; Ascogaster reticulatus; Conditioning; Fecundity; Learning

Indexed keywords

EGG LAYING; FERTILITY; LEARNING ABILITY;

ADOXOPHYES; ASCOGASTER RETICULATUS; BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE; TORTRIX;

EID: 0032211484     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1998.0657     Document Type: Article

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