Aphidius rhopalosiphi
EFFECT OF HIGH CALCIUM AND PHOSPHORUS ON THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF METOPOLOPHIUM DIRHODUM AND ITS PARASITOID APHIDIUS RHOPALOSIPHI
... ABSTRACT: Glasshouse studies were conducted to ascertain the effects of nutrient solutions of calcium and phosphorus on the growth and development of rose grain aphid, Metopolophium dirhodum (Walker) and its parasitoid ...
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Biology of aphidius rhopalosiphi, a parasitoid of cereal aphids
... changed in time among successively produced offspring. Handling time was about 2 sec and was soruewhat longer in the fourth instar than in the second. Second and third aphid instar[r] ...
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The effect of the aphid sex pheromone on the aphid Myzus persicae and its parasitoid Aphidius colemani
... of Aphidius colemani to Nepeta cataria essential oil, but not the isolated nepetalactone ...of Aphidius rhopalosiphi and Praon Volucre suggested that the foraging response of the two may be altered ...
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Learning is involved in the response of parasitic wasps Aphidius ervi (Haliday) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to volatiles from a broad bean plant, Vicia faba (Fabaceae), infested by aphids Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Homoptera: Aphididae)
... specialist Aphidius rhopalosiphi was able to distinguish be- tween different cultivated varieties of winter wheat in a Y-tube olfactometer (Wickremasinghe and van Emden, ...
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Response of Aphidius colemani to aphid sex pheromone varies depending on plant synergy and prior experience
... altered by the presence of nepetalactone (Powell, 2004). Although the compounds are detected by asexual aphids (Fernandez-Grandon et al., 2013), there is no evidence that it would alter their behaviour or population ...
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Effect of Temperature on the Developmental Rate, Longevity and Parasitism of Aphidius ervi Haliday (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae)
... °C. Aphidius rhopalosiphi De Stefani-Perez required 124 DD for mummy formation and 70 DD for adult emergence (Sigsgaard 2000) which is less than in ...
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Diversity and host associations of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the farmlands of western Iran
... The majority of parasitoid species were found in association with 1–2 host aphid species, but a few species were involved in various habitats in association with many aphid species. Species in both groups associated with ...
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Review of Interactions Between Host Plants, Aphids, Primary Parasitoids and Hyperparasitoids in Vegetable and Cereal Ecosystems in Slovenia
... Our survey on primary parasitoids in cereal crops reveals that Aphidius ervi, A. rhopalosiphi, A. uzbekistanicus and E. plagiator are the key species in the cereal aphid populations control in Slovenia. ...
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Evaluation of the Aphidius colemani-Rhopalosiphum padi banker plant system in greenhouse biological control
... feeding. Aphidius colemani wasps were cooled slightly for two minutes to slow activity, then five adult parasitoids aged 24 to 48 h were transferred to each Petri dish and ...dish. Aphidius colemani adults ...
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Interactions between aphids, their insect and fungal natural enemies and the host plant
... Figure 6.6 Mean number of Acyrthosiphon pisum recovered after 8 days from cages containing either a single aphid natural enemy (Pandora.. neoaphidis, Aphidius ervi or Coccinella septempu[r] ...
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An investigation of ecological relationships : experimental studies of the interactions between the sowthistle aphid, Hyperomyzus lactucae and its parasite, Aphidius sonchi
... lactucae in South-Eastern Australia 258 16.2 Temperature Relationships: Effect of Constant and Fluctuating Temperatures on the Development of Insects 261 APPENDIX 1, Effects of Crowding [r] ...
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The functional response of Aphidius ervi (Haliday)(Hym.: Braconidae, Aphidiinae) to different densities of Sitobion avenae (Fabricius)(Hom.: Aphididae) on two wheat cultivars
... wasp Aphidius ervi to the various densities of aphid Sitobion avenae, and estimating the effects of wheat genotypes on the behavioral features of the parasitoid during various laboratory ...
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Morphological and Molecular Methods in Identification of Aphidius transcaspicus Telenga (Hym: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) Parasitoid of Hyalopterus spp. (Hom: Aphididae) with Additional Data on Aphidiinae Phylogeny
... JAFARI AHMADABADI, N., KARIMI, J., MODARRES AWAL, M., RAKHSHANI, E. from Aphidius colemani (Kavallieratos and Lykouressis, 1999). Despite the intense effort to separate species from each other, Uncertainties ...
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Reproductive behaviour of Aphidius ervi Haliday (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae : a thesis presented in partial fulfi[l]ment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Science (Entomology) at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... In North America, A. ervi displaced A. smithi as the predominant species even if the latter was introduced first and rapidly became established (Mackauer and Kambhampati 1986). In Australia, A. ervi, A. eadyi, A. smithi ...
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Biological control ecology of Aphidius colemani Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) on Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Sciences (Entomology) at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Aphidius colemani is a solitary endoparasitoid. Females normally deposit a single egg in an aphid although superparasitism may occur when hosts are scarce. Once within the aphid, the egg expands several times its ...
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Combining lacewings and parasitoids for biological control of foxglove aphids in sweet pepper
... parasitoid Aphidius ervi Haliday, and the predatory brown lacewing Micromus variegatus (Fabricius), on their shared prey, the foxglove aphid, Aulacorthum solani (Kaltenbach), on sweet ...
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Current Status and Future Trends of Augmentative Release of Aphidius gifuensis for Control of Myzus persicae in China’s Yunnan Province
... of Aphidius gifuensis Ashmead (Hymentoptera: Aphidiidae) was initiated by Yuxi Tobacco Company in Hongta District, Yuxi Prefecture of Yunnan Province in 1997 and ...
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Airborne interactions between undamaged plants of different cultivars affect insect herbivores and natural enemies
... Fig. 1 Effect of airborne exposure of one barley cultivar to a different cultivar on Rhopalosiphum padi plant acceptance (settling) of exposed plants and orientation of Coccinella septempunctata and Aphidius ...
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Factors Affecting Biological Control of Myzus persicae using Aphidius colemani.
... 1975). Aphidius colemani development is closely tied to its hosts’ development, making it vulnerable when its host feeds on toxic or low quality plant material (Kalule & Wright ...
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Drosophila parasitoid wasps bears a distinct DNA transposon profile
... The extraordinary rate in which new genomes are being sequenced allows researchers to have a better view of genome evolution in several different taxa and test the consistency of major patterns driving genome expansion ...
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