Evaluation of the potential of the exotic larval parasitoid Peristenus digoneutis Loan as a biological control agent against the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), in lettuce and celery crops in muck soils of southwestern Quebec

In the agricultural muck soil area of southwestern Quebec, two native parasitoids, Peristenus pallipes and P. pseudopallipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) were found to parasitize nymphs of the tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae), on various flowering plants and on cultivated lettu...

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Main Author: Carignan, Sylvie
Other Authors: Boivin, Guy (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 1995
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23387