North American Egg Parasite Successfully Controls a Different Host Genus in South America
- 22 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4301), 390-391
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.877562
Abstract
Telenomus alsophilae, a parasite of the eggs of the geometrid Alsophila pometaria in North America, was introduced into Columbia, South America, for the biological control of a pest host in another genus, Oxydia trychiata. Successful results were obtained with this unorthodox procedure to control a forest insect.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Biological Control of Forest InsectsAnnual Review of Entomology, 1977
- Introducing Parasites and Predators to Control Native PestsThe Canadian Entomologist, 1963