Effects of temperature, host instar, and adult feeding on progeny production by the endoparasitoid Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-21

  Eliopoulos, Panagiotis A ^a   Stathas, George J ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biological control; Fertility; Offspring; Parasitoid; Stored products

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOPARASITE; HOST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; EPHESTIA KUEHNIELLA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 13544253486     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-34.1.14     Document Type: Article

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