A Three-Year Study of Parasites of the Bollworm and the Tobacco Budworm in Mississippi12
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 61 (3), 673-676
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.3.673
Abstract
Several species of parasitic insects were reared from field-collected larvae of the bollworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie); and the tobacco budworm, H. viresens (F.). The parasites belong to the families Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, and Tachinidae. The predominant species throughout the study were 2 braconids, Microplitis croceipes (Cresson) and Cardioehiles nigriceps Viereck, the latter species being found only from H. virescens. Significant natural control of the 2 Heliothis species was derived from parasitic insects on all host plants studied except corn.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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