Interactions between Large-Scale Inundative Releases of Trichogramma minutum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) and Naturally Occurring Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Parasitoids

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1273-1279

  Bourchier, R S ^a,b   Smith, S M ^a,c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apanteles fumiferanae; Biological control; Egg parasitoids; Lypha setafacies; Trichogramma; Winthemia fumiferanae

Indexed keywords

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; APANTELES; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; EPHESTIA; HYMENOPTERA; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PICEA; TACHINIDAE; TORTRICIDAE; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA MINUTUM; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; WINTHEMIA;

EID: 0037628113     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.5.1273     Document Type: Article

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