Effect of ant attendance by Monomorium minimum (Buckley) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on predation and parasitism of the soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera Aphididae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1258-1263

  Herbert, John J ^b   Horn, David J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant attendance; Coccinellidae; Monomorium; Soybean aphid

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; BIOCONTROL AGENT; LABORATORY METHOD; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PREDATION; SOYBEAN;

ANIMAL; ANT; APHID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FOOD CHAIN; HETEROPTERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; ANTS; APHIDS; BEETLES; FOOD CHAIN; HETEROPTERA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

ANTHOCORIDAE; APHIDIDAE; APHIDIINAE; APHIDIUS COLEMANI; APHIS GLYCINES; COCCINELLIDAE; FORMICIDAE; GLYCINE MAX; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MONOMORIUM; MONOMORIUM MINIMUM; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS;

EID: 56049109316     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[1258:EOAABM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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