Location, acceptance and suitability of lepidopteran stemborers feeding on a cultivated and wild host-plant to the endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-47

  Obonyo, Meshack ^a   Schulthess, Fritz ^a   Gerald, Juma ^b   Wanyama, Onesmus ^a   Rü, Bruno Le ^b   Calatayud, Paul André ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Busseola fusca; Busseola phaia; Chilo partellus; GC analyses; Pennisetum purpureum; Plant volatiles; Sciomesa piscator; Sesamia calamistis; Sesamia nonagrioides; Sorghum bicolor; Y tube olfactometer

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; BUSSEOLA; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; CHILO PARTELLUS; COTESIA FLAVIPES; CRAMBIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; SESAMIA CALAMISTIS; SESAMIA NONAGRIOIDES; SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 40449139769     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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