Influence of parasitism and soil compaction on pupation of the green bottle fly, Lucilia sericata

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-141

  Cammack, Jonathan ^a   Adler, Peter ^a   Tomberlin, Jeffery ^b   Arai, Yuji ^a   Bridges, William ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Blow fly; Burrowing behavior; Calliphoridae; Diptera; Forensic entomology; Hymenoptera; Nasonia vitripennis; Parasitoid; Pteromalidae

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BURROWING; COMPACTION; FLY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITISM; PUPATION; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LUCILIA SERICATA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PTEROMALIDAE;

EID: 77956233224     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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