Biological Control by the Parasitoid Aphytis melinus, and Population Stability of the California Red Scale
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 55 (3) , 1069-1082
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4434
Abstract
(1) The California red scale, a citrus pest, is under successful biological control by its parasitoid Aphytis melinus. Scale abundance is relatively stable, in ...This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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