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Building a Confidence Interval Around the Mean: a Way to Compare the Sample with a Predefined Standard Once a sample is describe ...

guidelines, a standard of 0.50 (i.e. 50% females) is required. The estimated confi- dence interval at a 5% probability level is ...

which is greater than 1.96. So there is a sig- nificant positive correlation between females’ fecundity and longevity, with a pr ...

Working example A short-distance flight test was conducted for Encarsia formosa(J.C. van Lenteren and co-workers, unpublished da ...

From these data, the following descriptive statistics can be computed: (i) for the females, n 1 = 30, x– 1 = 15.83 days, σ 12 = ...

statistical computer programs are needed, but they are not presented here. A descrip- tion of multivariate approaches can be fou ...

Index 315 Adaliaspp. 136, 144–146, 147, 168 A. bipunctata 144–146, 147, 168 A. decempunctata 144 Adoxophyes orana301, 302 Acrost ...

Artificial rearing of natural enemies continued genetic parameters of artificially reared natural enemies 125–126 morphological ...

Dacnusa sibirica4, 168, 171, 172, 186, 187, 268, 283 Dastarcus helophoroides 119 Delphastus pusillus4, 168, 171, 174, 214 Diapet ...

Genetics and mass production continued fitness recovery by natural selection 91 fitness reduction in small populations 89 fitnes ...

Liriomyzaspp. 172, 283, 285 L. bryoniae 172, 283, 285 L. huidobrensis 172 L. trifolii172, 283, 285 Listronotus bonariensis 104 L ...

Mass production of natural enemies continued nutrition of mass produced natural enemies 59–67, 167 obstacles in mass production ...

adult experience and change in foraging 28, 124 associative learning and biological control 48, 49, 50 associative learning, def ...

Natural enemiescontinued parasitization efficiency of mass-reared natural enemies 125 pathogen infections of natural enemies 133 ...

Ostrinia nubilalis155, 173, 235, 241–242, 265–267, 270, 300 Otiorhynchus sulcatus 176 Pachycrepoideus vindemiae 152 Paecilomyces ...

Pieris brassicae149–150 Planococcus citri173, 232, 290 Plutella xulostella 155 Podisusspp. 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 12 ...

quality control in Russia 6 quality control of artificially reared natural enemies 115–116, 118–126 quality control characterist ...

specialist natural enemies and non-target risks 198, 201 testing of native natural enemies before import of exotics 192, 202 wor ...

T. platneri 99, 105, 236, 240–241, 243 T. pretiosum99, 105, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125, 154, 214, 236, 237–240, 243 T.nr. sibericum ...

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