REARING METHODS AND BIOLOGICAL NOTES FOR SEVEN SPECIES OF EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE PARASITES OF THE LARCH CASEBEARER (LEPIDOPTERA: COLEOPHORIDAE)
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 112 (12) , 1239-1248
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1121239-12
Abstract
Types of cages and methods for rearing, collecting, holding, and scheduling adult emergence are described for hymenopterous parasites of Coleophora laricella (Hübner). Methods differ depending on whether the parasite attacks needlemining larvae, e.g. Agathis pumila (Ratz.) and Diadegma laricinellum (Strobl), or casebearing larvae, e.g. Chrysocharis laricinellae (Ratz.), Elachertus argissa (Walk.), Necremnus metalarus (Walk.), Dicladocerus westwoodii Westw., and Dicladocerus japonicus Yshm. Biological details of the parasites pertinent to laboratory rearing include stage attacked, developmental times, adult longevity, diapause, mode of reproduction, progeny sex ratios, and suggested parasite/host ratios.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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