Claim · model-written summary
Parasitoid life-cycle parameters did not differ significantly between the two tomato cultivars.
- Taxon
- Eretmocerus eremicusEretmocerus eremicust0
- Treatment
- Moneymakere1
- Interactor
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1other - Outcome
- life-cycle parameterse0
- Direction
- did not differe0
- Comparator
- Hayslipe1
Verbatim
e0“The life-cycle parameters of the parasitoid did not differ significantly on the two tomato cultivars.”
e1“the intrinsic rate of natural increase of the parasitoid on tomato plants, cultivars Moneymaker and Hayslip”
t0“Eretmocerus eremicus”
Title
R. Soler Gamborena; J.C. van Lenteren 2004
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation E. eremicus mean fecundity on Moneymaker was 162 ± 20 eggs.
- Observation E. eremicus mean fecundity on Hayslip was 167 ± 20 eggs.
- Observation Parasitoid developmental time was 22 ± 0.04 days.
- Observation Parasitoid juvenile mortality was 7%.
- Observation Parasitoid sex ratio was close to 1:1.
- Observation Parasitoid adult longevity was 14 ± 1.35 days.
- Observation Parasitoid net reproduction was 91 on Moneymaker.
- Observation Parasitoid net reproduction was 86 on Hayslip.
- Observation Parasitoid mean generation time was 28 on Moneymaker.
- Observation Parasitoid mean generation time was 27 on Hayslip.
- Observation Parasitoid intrinsic rate of natural increase was 0.161 on Moneymaker.
- Observation Parasitoid intrinsic rate of natural increase was 0.165 on Hayslip.
- Observation The parasitoid intrinsic rate falls within the range registered for other whitefly-control parasitoids.
- Recommendation The authors consider E. eremicus a good candidate for greenhouse whitefly biological control.