Production of filth fly parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on fresh and on freeze-killed and stored house fly pupae

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 595-603

  Floate, K D ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Commercialization; Host storage; Mass rearing; Musca domestica Muscidifurax; Spalangia; Trichomalopsis; Urolepis

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; PARASITOID; REARING; STORAGE;

DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; MUSCIDIFURAX; MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTOR; MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTORELLUS; MUSCIDIFURAX ZARAPTOR; PTEROMALIDAE; RAPTORES; SPALANGIA; SPALANGIA CAMERONI; TRICHOMALOPSIS; UROLEPIS; UROLEPIS RUFIPES;

EID: 0036795729     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958315021000016252     Document Type: Article

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