Population collapses in a forecasted outbreak of Lambdina fiscellaria (Lepidoptera: Geolnetridae) caused by spring egg parasitism by telenomus spp. (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-43

  Hebert C ^a   Berthiaume, R ^a   Dupont, A ^a   Auger, M ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficient natural control; Egg parasitism; Geometridae; Lambdina fiscellaria; Outbreak collapse; Telenomus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CANADA; INSECT CONTROL; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASON;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DEFOLIATION; EGG PARASITOID; PEST OUTBREAK;

GEOLNETRIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LAMBDINA FISCELLARIA; LEPIDOPTERA; SCELIONIDAE; TELENOMUS; TRICHOGRAMMA;

EID: 0034752481     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-30.1.37     Document Type: Article

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