Host instar susceptibility and selection and interspecific competition of three introduced parasitoids of the mealybug paracoccus marginatus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1506-1512

  Amarasekare, Kaushalya G ^a   Mannion, Catharine M ^b   Epsky, Nancy D ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

biological control; hosts; parasitism; parasitoids

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; EMERGENCE; HOST SELECTION; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMIPTERA; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WASP;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEX RATIO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ACEROPHAGUS; ANAGYRUS; ENCYRTIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PARACOCCUS (MEALYBUG); PARACOCCUS MARGINATUS; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 77957803563     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09376     Document Type: Article

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