Marking the package or its contents: Host discrimination and acceptance in the ectoparasitoid Dendrocerus carpenteri (Hymenoptera: Megaspilidae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 495-505

  Chow, Andrew ^a   Mackauer, Manfred ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST QUALITY; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; APHIDIINAE; APHIDIUS ERVI; BRACONIDAE; DENDROCERUS CARPENTERI; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGASPILIDAE; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0032770542     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent131495-4     Document Type: Article

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