Argentine stem weevil behavioural responses and parasitism rates towards its biological control agent in three New Zealand regions

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Argentine stem weevil behavioural responses and parasitism rates towards its biological control agent in three New Zealand regions

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   Biological control of pests continues to become more important in agriculture as pesticides are being withdrawn. However, successful control can be compromised by contemporary evolution. Recent work in New Zealand has shown that the once-successful biological control programme of the sexually-reproducing grassland weevil pest Listronotus bonariensis by the asexual parasitoid Microctonus hyperodae has now failed. In order to explain the mechanisms associated with this, weevil parasitism rat...

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11 Aug 2022

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Morgan Shields / Stephen Goldson / Stephen Wratten / Chikako van Koten / Craig B. Phillips / Philippa J. Gerard

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https://data.lincoln.ac.nz/articles/dataset/Argentine_stem_weevil_behavioural_responses_and_paras...

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Spreadsheets / Raw Data files / binomial data / Temperature / parasitism rates / behaviour change / Pest species / Argentine Stem Weevil / Microctonus hyperodae / Listronotus bonariensis / contemporary / Parasitoid / Pasture / Lolium perenne / Resistance / Behaviour / Behavioural ecology / Biological control

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