Searching speed of Trichogramma minutum and its potential as a measure of parasitoid quality

Biological Control

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-146

  Van Hezewijk, B H ^a   Bourchier, R S ^a   Smith, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actebia fennica Tauscher; Biological control; Ephestia kuehniella Zell; Host acceptance; Insecta; Mass rearing; Parasitoid quality; Searching speed; Trichogramma minutum Riley

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENETIC STRAIN; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; SEARCHING SPEED; SIZE;

ACTEBIA FENNICA; TRICHOGRAMMA MINUTUM;

EID: 0033963511     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0785     Document Type: Article

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