Effects of the larval diet of Pseudaletia unipuncta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on the performance of the parasitoid Glyptapanteles militaris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 180-186

  Reis, Joana ^a   Oliveira, Luísa ^a   Garcia, Patrícia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Development; Diet; Glyptapanteles militaris; Larval parasitoid; Pseudaletia unipuncta; Tritrophic interaction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DIET; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; REARING;

BRACONIDAE; GLYPTAPANTELES; GLYPTAPANTELES MILITARIS; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE; PSEUDALETIA UNIPUNCTA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037305711     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.1.180     Document Type: Article

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