Can parasitoid sex pheromones help in insect biocontrol? A case study of codling moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and its parasitoid Ascogaster quadridentata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 947-952

  Suckling, D M ^a   Gibb, A R ^a   Burnip, G M ^a   Delury, N C ^a,b  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological control; Codling moth; Cydia pomonella; Parasitoid; Phenology; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EGG PARASITOID; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PHENOLOGY; PHEROMONE TRAP; SEX HORMONE;

NEW ZEALAND;

ASCOGASTER QUADRIDENTATA; BRACONIDAE; CYDIA POMONELLA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 0036958345     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.6.947     Document Type: Article

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