Biological characteristics: Growth and development of the egg parasitoid trichogramma dendrolimi (hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) on the cabbage armyworm mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 369-379

  Takada, Yoichi ^a   Kawamura, Satoshi ^b   Tanaka, Toshiharu ^c  

^a Gifu Prefectoral Gifu Hospital   (Japan)

^b Gifu Prefectural Institute for Bio Industrial Technology   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host stage suitability; Parasitoid development; Sex allocation; Trichogramma dendrolimi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034238514     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2000.369     Document Type: Article

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