Suitability of some farmscaping plants as nectar sources for the parasitoid wasp, Microplitis croceipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Effects on longevity and body nutrients

Biological Control

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 225-229

  Nafziger, Timothy D ^a   Fadamiro, Henry Y ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Farmscaping; Habitat manipulation; Longevity; Microplitis croceipes; Nectar; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

AGASTACHE; AGASTACHE FOENICULUM; ARTHROPODA; BRACONIDAE; FAGOPYRUM; FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM; FOENICULUM VULGARE; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LOBULARIA MARITIMA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MENTHA; MICROPLITIS CROCEIPES;

EID: 78651245284     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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