Mortality and emergence pattern of overwintering cocoons of the wasp parasitoid Sphecophaga vesparum vesparum (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in New Zealand

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-13

  Toft, Richard J ^a   Malham, Jason P ^a,b   Beggs, Jacqueline R ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emergence patterns; Mortality; Parasitoid; Shecophaga; Vespula; Yellowjackets

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COCOON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OVERWINTERING; PARASITOID;

COCOON; EMERGENCE; MORTALITY; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL;

NEW ZEALAND;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; INSECTA; RODENTIA; SPHECOPHAGA; SPHECOPHAGA VESPARUM; VESPIDAE; VESPULA; VESPULA GERMANICA; VESPULA VULGARIS;

EID: 0032910452     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.1.9     Document Type: Article

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