Potential for sugar sprays and flowering plants to increase parasitism of white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by tiphiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 619-626

  Rogers, M E ^a   Potter, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biological control; Supplemental food sources; Tiphia pygidialis; Tiphia vernalis; White grubs

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; PARASITISM; PEST CONTROL;

COLEOPTERA; CYCLOCEPHALA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; JAPONICA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PAEONIA; PEONIA LACTIFLORA; POPILLIA JAPONICA; SCARABAEIDAE; TIPHIA; TIPHIA PYGIDIALIS; TIPHIA VERNALIS; TIPHIIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 10644233904     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.3.619     Document Type: Article

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