Importance of host oviposition pattern and plant size for the selection of Trichogramma strains to control the diamondback moth

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-51

  Tabone, Elisabeth ^b   Bardon, Céline ^a,b   Pintureau, Bernard ^c   Alauzet, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Brassicaceae; Egg parasitoids; Greenhouse; Host egg density; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Parasitic efficiency; Plutella xylostella; Plutellidae; Trichogrammatidae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EGG PARASITOID; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICACEAE; CHALCIDOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA CHILONIS; TRICHOGRAMMA EVANESCENS; TRICHOGRAMMA OSTRINIAE; TRICHOGRAMMA SEMBLIDIS; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE;

EID: 33645104173     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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