Influence of temperature and host on life history parameters of Catolaccus hunteri (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 354-360

  Seal, Dakshina R ^a   Stansly, Philip A ^a,b   Schuster, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Demography; Host; Parasitoid; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITOID; PEST CONTROL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANTHONOMUS; ANTHONOMUS EUGENII; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; BRUCHIDAE; BRUCHINAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; CATOLACCUS HUNTERI; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PTEROMALIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036557343     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.2.354     Document Type: Article

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