Seasonal and spatial activity of hymenopterous pupal parasitoids (Pteromalidae and Ichneumonidae) of the house fly (Diptera: Muscidae) on danish pig and cattle farms

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 630-637

  Skovgard H ^a   Jespersen, J B ^a  

^a Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological control; Musca domestica; Muscidifurax; Pupal parasitoids; Spalangia; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PEST SPECIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DENMARK;

DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTOR; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PACHYCREPOIDEUS VINDEMIAE; PTEROMALIDAE; SPHALANGIA CAMERONI; SPHALANGIA CARNERONI; SPHALANGIA NIGRA; SPHALANGIA NIGRIPES; SPHALANGIA SUBPUNCTATA; UROLEPIS RUFIPES;

EID: 17344384561     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-29.3.630     Document Type: Article

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