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APPLICATION OF ELIMINADE™ PARASITOID FOOD TO BOLES AND CROWNS OF PINES (PINACEAE) INFESTED WITH DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Fred M. Stephen  and
Lloyd E. Browne
Fred M. Stephen*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States 72701
Lloyd E. Browne
Affiliation:
Entopath, Inc., 3555 Timberlane Drive, Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 18045
*
1 Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed (E-mail: fstephen@uark.edu).
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The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, is native to pine forests of the southern United States. We describe here techniques for enhancing parasitoid efficacy by direct feeding of parasitoid adults. Our recent research suggests that feeding by female adult D. frontalis parasitoids is important for increased longevity (Mathews and Stephen 1997, 1999; Stephen et al. 1997), and we documented that, with parasitoid feeding, egg resorption decreases and development of new immature eggs increases (Hanano 1996). We suspect that food for D. frontalis parasitoids, in the form of nectar, pollen, or honeydew, is not always available in the forest. We are developing a commercial D. frontalis control strategy based on this assumption.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 132 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 983 - 985
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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