Enhancing the weaver ant, <i>Oecophylla smaragdina</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), for biological control of a shoot borer, <i>Hypsipyla robusta</i> (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in Malaysian mahogany plantations
The weaver ant is a promising biological control agent of a shoot borer, <i>Hypsipyla robusta</i> Moore, on mahogany, but techniques to conserve ant colonies redistributed to mahogany plantations have not yet been developed. The effect of food supplementation and host plant species prefe...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26850 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04142007-091557/ |