Establishment of a Chinese strain of Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the northeastern United States

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 386-388

  Van Driesche, R G ^a   Nunn, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; PARASITOID; POPULATION DECLINE;

(NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HYMENOPTERA; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 0038722906     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085[0386:eoacso]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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