Biological control success of a pasture pest: Has its parasitoid lost its functional mojo?

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Biological control success of a pasture pest: Has its parasitoid lost its functional mojo?

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Sustainable and integrated pest management often involves insect parasitoids. However, the effectiveness of parasitoids biocontrol has often failed, frequently for obscure reasons. A parasitoid's success is partly due to its behavioral response to pest density, i.e. its consumer functional response. For many years in New Zealand, a braconid parasitoid, Microctonus hyperodae successfully suppressed a severe ryegrass weevil pest, Listronotus bonariensis. However, there is now evidence that this...

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2018-12-14

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Tomasetto, F / Casanovas, P / Brandt, SN / Goldson, Stephen

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/10576

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attack rates / host density / invertebrate species / predator-prey interaction / natural enemy / weevil / Invertebrate Biology / Zoology / Ecology / Evolutionary biology / Ecological applications

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