Optimizing Trichogramma ostriniae (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) releases to control European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in bell pepper

The effective dispersal ability of the egg parasitoid Trichogramma ostriniae Pang and Chen was assessed in potato fields on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in spring 2005 and 2006. Approximately 0.5 million T. ostriniae were released from a central release point in separate potato fields. Dispersal wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chapman, Anna Virginia
Other Authors: Entomology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
IPM
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32313
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05072007-130247/