Substrate influences mating success and transmission of courtship vibrations for the parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-47

  Joyce, Andrea L ^a   Hunt, Randy E ^b   Bernal, Julio S ^a   Bradleigh Vinson, S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne sound; Augmentation; Biological control; Braconidae; Hymenoptera; Mass rearing; Mating behavior; Near field sound; Wing fanning

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; MATING SUCCESS; PARASITOID; SIGNALING; SUBSTRATE; VIBRATION; WASP; WING;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA MARGINIVENTRIS; FABACEAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; POACEAE; VIGNA UNGUICULATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 40749092072     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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