Costs and benefits of host feeding in the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma turkestanica

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-234

  Ferracini, Chiara ^a   Boivin, Guy ^b   Alma, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concurrent host feeding; Fecundity; Fitness; Hymenoptera; Longevity; Resource allocation; Trichogrammatidae

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FECUNDITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMIDITY; LONGEVITY; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; WASP;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; TRICHOGRAMMA TURKESTANICA; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE;

EID: 33750935431     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-8703.2006.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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