Native range assessment of classical biological control agents: Impact of inundative releases as pre-introduction evaluation

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Jenner, W H ^a   Mason, P G ^b   Cappuccino, N ^c   Kuhlmann, U ^a  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acrolepiopsis assectella; classical biological control; Diadromus pulchellus; efficacy; field trial

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; COCOON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOTH; ONION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; WASP;

AGING; ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOTHS; ONIONS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; WASPS;

CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE;

ACROLEPIOPSIS ASSECTELLA; ALLIUM PORRUM; DIADROMUS PULCHELLUS; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLIDAE;

EID: 77955847988     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485309990368     Document Type: Article

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