Disruptive sublethal effects of insecticides on biological control: Altered foraging ability and life span of a parasitoid after feeding on extrafloral nectar of cotton treated with systemic insecticides

Biological Control

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-249

  Stapel, J O ^a   Cortesero, A M ^a   Lewis, W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beneficial insects; Biological control; Flight response; IPM; Longevity; Microplitis croceipes; Mortality; Natural enemies; Parasitoid; Pesticides; Sublethal effects; Systemic insecticides; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FORAGING; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

BRACONIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; HIRSUTUM; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MALVACEAE; MICROPLITIS CROCEIPES;

EID: 0034109396     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0795     Document Type: Article

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