Yellow sticky trap catches of parasitoids of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in vegetable crops and their relationship to in-field populations

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-399

  Hoelmer, Kim A ^a   Simmons, Alvin M ^b  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

^b USDA ARS US Vegetable Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bemisia tabaci biotype B; Biological control; Encarsia spp.; Eretmocerus spp.; Sweetpotato whitefly

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOTYPE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LEGUME; NATIVE SPECIES; PARASITOID; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VINE; WHITEFLY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE; WASP;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VEGETABLES; WASPS;

IMPERIAL VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA; BEMISIA TABACI; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; ENCARSIA; ERETMOCERUS; ERETMOCERUS EREMICUS; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 43649101095     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[391:YSTCOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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