Parasitoid complex of Zeiraphera canadensis (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and evaluation of Tycherus osculator (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) as a biological control agent

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 465-474

  West, R J ^a,b   Kenis, M ^a,c   Butt, G W ^a   Bennett, S M ^a  

^a NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^b Box 515 ^*  (Canada)

^c CABI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTH; PARASITISM; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

ASCOGASTER; ASCOGASTER SP.; BRACONIDAE; CLINOCENTRUS; EARINUS; EARINUS ZEIRAPHERAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LAMACHUS; LEPIDOPTERA; MUTUURA; NEARCTIC; PICEA; TORTRICIDAE; TRICLISTUS; TYCHERUS; TYCHERUS OSCULATOR; ZEIRAPHERA; ZEIRAPHERA CANADENSIS; ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA;

EID: 0032794850     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent131465-4     Document Type: Article

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