Life table studies of European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) with and without inoculative releases of Trichogramma ostriniae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 482-489

  Kuhar, Thomas P ^a,b   Wright, Mark G ^a,c   Hoffmann, Michael P ^a   Chenus, Sylvie A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Life tables; Ostrinia nubilalis; Trichogramma

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BORING ORGANISM; EGG PARASITOID; INSECT; LIFE TABLE; PARASITISM;

CHEN; CRAMBIDAE; CRAMBINAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA OSTRINIAE; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036627288     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.3.482     Document Type: Article

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