Suitability of different lepidopteran host species for development of bracon hebetor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 449-458

  Ghimire, Mukti N ^a,b   Phillips, Thomas W ^a,c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host suitability; Parasitoid; Stored product insects; Wasp

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVA; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; PHOTOPERIOD; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MOTHS; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; WASPS;

AMYELOIS TRANSITELLA; ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; BRACON HEBETOR; BRACONIDAE; CADRA CAUTELLA; CORCYRA CEPHALONICA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NOCTUIDAE; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA; PYRALIDAE; SITOTROGA CEREALELLA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; TINEIDAE; TINEOLA BISSELLIELLA;

EID: 77952697844     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09213     Document Type: Article

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