Non-target habitat exploitation by Trichogramma brassicae (Hym. Trichogrammatidae): What are the risks for endemic butterflies?

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-208

  Babendreier, Dirk ^a   Schoch, D ^a,b   Kuske, S ^a   Dorn, S ^b   Bigler, F ^a  

^a Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Habitats; Inundative biological control; Nontarget effects; Risk assessment; Trichogramma brassicae

Indexed keywords

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; EPHESTIA; KUEHNIELLA; LANCEOLATA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; TRICHOGRAMMA BRASSICAE; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; VESPIDAE; VIOLA WITTROCKIANA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0042232457     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-9563.2003.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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