Interactions Between Apanteles glomeratus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Granulosis Virus in Pieris rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 10 (1) , 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/10.1.65
Abstract
Host-parasitoid-pathogen interactions among Pieris rapae (L.), Apanteles glomeratus (L.), and the granulosis Virus (GV) of P. rapae were studied using laboratory and field populations. Survival of A. glomeratus in GV-infected P. rapae depended on the time between oviposition by the parasitoid in a larva of P. rapae and ingestion of GV by the larva; parasitoids did not survive in host larvae exposed to GV on or before 4 days after oviposition at 25°C. Survival of A. glomeratus was less in P. rapae in which the GV disease was severe than in lightly infected larvae.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The granulosis virus of Pieris brassicae L. in relation to natural limitation and biological controlAnnals of Applied Biology, 1965