Host-feeding of three parasitoid species on Bemisia tabaci biotype B and implications for whitefly biological control

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-63

  Zang, Lian Sheng ^a,b   Liu, Tong Xian ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aleyrodidae; Aphelinidae; Encarsia formosa; Encarsia sophia; Eretmocerus melanoscutus; Homoptera; Host stage; Hymenoptera

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FEEDING; FLY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA FORMOSA; ENCARSIA SOPHIA; ERETMOCERUS; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 40749123618     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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