Journal of Applied Entomology - Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie (1996) 120, 33-37

A. Ganteaume, E. Tabone and N. Poinsot-Balaguer (1996)
Substrate and food effects on biotic potentialities of Encarsia formosa (Hym., Aphelinidae)
Journal of Applied Entomology - Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie 120 (1), 33-37
Abstract: With the aim of improving the dispatches of Encarsia formosa to the agriculturist's greenhouses increasing wasp efficiency, a new method of conditioning by changing the substrate of black pupae was performed.
Three groups of parasites to which pupae were glued with or without sugar and compared to a control were studied. This new method of conditioning (pupae were removed from the host-plant then glued on a cardboard plaquette) did not disturb the wasp's biological potentialities (daily fecundity, longevity) and adding sugar increased the daily fecundity.
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Database assignments for author(s): Elisabeth Tabone

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
application technology
rearing/culturing/mass production

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Trialeurodes vaporariorum		France
Encarsia formosa (parasitoid)	Trialeurodes vaporariorum		France