Biological control of house flies Musca domestica and stable flies Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae) by means of inundative releases of Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 555-567

  Skovgard H ^a   Nachman, G ^b  

^a Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FLY; PARASITOID; PEST CONTROL;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WASP;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENMARK; DIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

DENMARK; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

BOS TAURUS; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; MUSCIDIFURAX; MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTOR; PTEROMALIDAE; RAPTORES; SPALANGIA; SPALANGIA CAMERONI; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 8844222060     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BER2004322     Document Type: Article

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