Refuge releases of Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) into the Louisiana sugarcane ecosystem

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 627-632

  White, W H ^c   Reagan, T E ^c   Smith Jr , J W ^a   Salazar, J A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRÍCOLAS INIA   (Venezuela)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cotesia flavipes; Diatraea saccharalis; Refuges; Sentinel larvae; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PREDATION; REFUGE; SUGAR CANE;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA; COTESIA FLAVIPES; CRAMBIDAE; DIATRAEA; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 10644260454     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.3.627     Document Type: Article

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