Effect of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) on survival and reproduction of the filth fly parasitoid, Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-139

  Nielsen, C ^a,b   Skovgard H ^a   Steenberg, T ^a  

^a Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological control; House flies; Metarhizium anisopliae; Population dynamics; Spalangia cameroni

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; PARASITOID; PEST CONTROL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

DIPTERA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; HYMENOPTERA; HYPHOMYCETES; INVERTEBRATA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; PTEROMALIDAE; SPALANGIA; SPALANGIA CAMERONI;

EID: 13544255538     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-34.1.133     Document Type: Article

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