Effect of common wild crucifer species of Kenya on fitness of two exotic diamondback moth parasitoids, Cotesia plutellae and Diadegma semiclausum

Crop Protection

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1477-1484

  Kahuthia Gathu, R ^a,b   Lohr B ^a   Poehling, H M ^b  

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

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Diamondback moth; Fecundity; Morphological structures; Mortality; Parasitism; Parasitoids

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; FECUNDITY; HERB; MOTH; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ACEPHALA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; COTESIA PLUTELLAE; DIADEGMA SEMICLAUSUM; ERUCASTRUM; LEPIDOPTERA; NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE; RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; RORIPPA; RORIPPA NUDIUSCULA;

EID: 55049122407     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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