Preference and performance of the hyperparasitoid Syrphophagus aphidivorus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae): Fitness consequences of selecting hosts in live aphids or aphid mummies

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 648-656

  Buitenhuis, R ^a   Boivin, G ^b   Vet, L E M ^c,d   Brodeur, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Host suitability; Offspring fitness; Oviposition preference; Parasitoid life history

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST QUALITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION; SUPERPARASITISM;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS; APHIDIUS NIGRIPES; ENCYRTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MACROSIPHUM EUPHORBIAE;

EID: 10344260695     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2004.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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