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carried out in June 2001 and January 2002. This comparison was executed by examin- ing simultaneously, in the fecundity test and ...

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17 Quality of Augmentative Biological Control Agents: a Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from Evaluating Trichogramma ...

Introduction Augmentative biological control utilizes one to several releases of a natural enemy to sup- press a pest during the ...

peratures in southern California’s coastal val- leys and, although it was able to survive along the immediate southern Californi ...

One consequence of augmentative bio- logical control’s initial success in citrus was its subsequent development and spread to ot ...

ticides disrupts the natural enemies, which then requires additional pesticide use, i.e. the pesticide treadmill. Thus, it is th ...

cient numbers early in the season and released to coincide with the codling moth’s period of oviposition during the first genera ...

size and laid a characteristic number of eggs in that host. Larger hosts received more eggs than smaller hosts. Schmidt and Smit ...

the tomato hornworm, M. sexta. These are the species of moths whose eggs are used by T. pretiosumin this cropping system (Oatman ...

able to find hosts in the field than their larger counterparts (Fig. 17.1A, B). Thus, it appeared that the larger wasps had an a ...

we would not expect to see the right-handed skew in wasp size that occurs in these results (Fig. 17.2). The number of eggs poten ...

1.5 eggs it allocates to an A. cuneanaegg. The difference in the time that a small T. platneri invests for each egg it lays in t ...

kuehniella eggs (see Barrett and Schmidt, 1991), T. brassicaeproduced on this host were smaller and less vigorous. Thus, the sma ...

prospects of those produced by a parental female with differing attributes (e.g. in accepting larger or smaller hosts) (Dawkins, ...

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18 Towards the Standardization of Quality Control of Fungal and Viral Biocontrol Agents N.E. Jenkins^1 and D. Grzywacz^2 (^1) CA ...

trol agents based upon fungi and bac- uloviruses (BV) depend on the successful com- pletion of a complex infection process by th ...