Biology and conservation of tiphia wasps, parasitoids of turf-infesting white grubs

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 661, Issue , 2004, Pages 505-510

  Rogers, Michael E ^a   Potter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cyclocephala spp.; Imidacloprid; Popillia japonica; Tiphia pygidialis; Tiphia vernalis

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242783827     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.661.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Potter, D.A. 1998. Destructive Turfgrass Insects: Biology, Diagnosis, and Control. Ann Arbor Press / J. Wiley, Indianapolis, IN.
3. Potter, D.A. 2001. Conserve beneficial insects on your golf course. USGA Green Section Record. 39:8-10.
4. Rogers, M.E. and Potter, D.A. 2002. Kairomones from scarabaeid grubs and their frass as cues in below-ground host location by the parasitoids Tiphia vernalis and Tiphia pygidialis. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 102:307-314.
5. Rogers, M.E. and Potter, D.A. 2003a. Effects of spring imidacloprid application for white grub control on parasitism of Japanese beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by Tiphia vernalis (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 96:1412-1419.
6. Rogers, M.E. and Potter, D.A. 2003b. Potential for sugar sprays and flowering plants to increase parasitism of white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by tiphiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Environ. Entomol. (in press)
7. Rogers, M.E., Cole, T.J., Ramaswamy, S.B. and Potter, D.A. 2003. Behavioral changes in Japanese beetle and masked chafer grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) after parasitism by tiphiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Environ. Entomol. 32:618-625.