Pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum (Leeke) R. Br, is the main cereal crop in Niger. This crop is seriously attacked by the millet Head miner (MHM), Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) causin...
part of the Research Program “The Key Techniques for Control Pine Wood Nematod”;“Fundamental Research Funds of Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAFYBB2021ZG001)” for supporting the present study;supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32370494):Taxonomic study of braconids parasitizing important cerambycids and screening of excellent natural enemies.
A new species,Sclerodermus alternatusi Yang,sp.nov.(Hymenoptera:Bethylidae),is described and illustrated.Its cerambycid host,Monochamus alternatus Hope,a severe wood borer attacking many pine trees(Pinus spp.),is also...
The effect of Capsicum annuum and Strophantus hispidus formulations was evaluated on Diachasmimorpha longicaudata. The formulations were obtained from the crude total extracts of C. annuum;S. hispidus and the adjuvant...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32060637 and 32260708);the Highlevel Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Funding Project in Guizhou Province,China((2021)01);the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Talent Team Project,China(Qian Ke He Pingtai RencaiCXTD(2021)004);the Systematic and Applied Acarology Society International Joint Project,England(2022(01));the Growth Project of Youth Talent in Ordinary Universities in Guizhou Province,China((2021)079);the Natural Science Special Project in Guizhou University,China((2020)02)。
Parasitoids are key regulators in ecological communities and widely used as agents in biocontrol programmes.The fall armyworm,Spodoptera frugiperda,recently invaded multiple continents and caused substantial economic ...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972344 and 31772236);the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFC2600400);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(caascx2022-2025-IAS).
Diglyphus wani(Hymenoptera:Eulophidae)is a dominant parasitoid that attacks agromyzid leafminers.Two reproductive types occur in D.wani:arrhenotoky(in which virgin females produce only male offspring;and virgin female...
Cabbage is today an economically important crop grown in more than 90 countries around the world. Production is constantly threatened by pests including the cabbage webworm, Hellula undalis (F.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralida...
funded by the Wellcome Trust(UK)and The University of Queensland(Australia);support from the Australian National Health&Medical Research Council(Principal Research Fellowship APP1136889 to G.F.K.);the Australian Research Council(Centre of Excellence Grant CE200100012 to G.F.K.,Discovery Project DP200102867 to A.A.W.);financed in part by the"Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior"Brasil(CAPES,Finance Code 001);by"Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo"FAPESP(17/25258-1).
Teratocytes are specialized cells released by parasitoid wasps into their hosts.They are known for producing regulatory molecules that aid the development of imma-ture parasitoids.We have recently reported the primary...
funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFC0501503);the Fundamental ResearchFunds for theCentral Non-profit Research Instituteof theCAF(CAFYBB2017SZ003).
To investigate the natural parasitoid enemies of Sphaerolecanium prunastri,a scale insect which harms wild fruit forests in western Tianshan,Xinjiang,branches seriously damaged by S.prunastri were collected and cultur...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772236);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (caascx-2017–2022-IAS);the Program of China Scholarship Council (201807990002)
Temperature, as a critical abiotic factor, might influence the effectiveness of biological control by parasitoids in hostparasitoid systems. In this study, Neochrysocharis formosa(Westwood), a larval endoparasitoid, i...
This project is funded in part by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research project HORT/2016/185.
Understanding the thermal dynamics of host-parasitoid interactions is crucial to predicting how biological control of pest insects by parasitoids might be affected by geographic location and climate change.We compared...