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Effects of Superparasitism on Nasonia vitripennis (Walk.) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. G. Wylie
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Belleville, Ontario

Abstract

Superparasitism created a food shortage and thereby reduced survival and size of adult Nasonia vitripennis (Walk.) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) reared on pupae of the house fly, Musca domestica L. Superparasitism also reduced the percentage of females in the adult progeny but had no effect on rate of development, ability to emerge, or incidence of diapause in N. vitripennis.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1965

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