Claim · model-written summary
Cotesia fiavipes was recovered from D. saccharalis after release and became abundant.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse1 - Interactor
- D. saccharalis
Diatraea saccharalise0pest - Second interactor
- Cotesia fiavipese0biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- recovered from D. saccharalise0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cotesia fiavipes was recovered from D. saccharalis and D. lineolata immediately after releasesbegan and became the most abundant parasite of those borer species thereafter”
e1“particularly at the vegetative corn stage”
Title
L. A. RodríGuez-Del-Bosque; H. W. Browning; J. W. Smith Environmental Entomology 1990. doi:10.1093/ee/19.2.393
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Overall cornstalk-borer parasitism was 6.8%.
- Observation No small larval or pupal parasitoids were detected in corn.
- Observation Six native parasitoids were reared from all borer species and host plants.
- Observation Chelonus sonorensis attacked only E. loftini and had 18% overall parasitism.
- Observation Chelonus sonorensis parasitism peaked at 34% during fall at the vegetative corn stage.
- Observation Other native parasitoids appeared sporadically at very low parasitism levels.
- Observation A. pyralophagus was not recovered after field release.
- Observation Cotesia fiavipes was recovered from D. lineolata after release and became abundant.
- Observation Cotesia fiaoipes was most often recovered in fall at reproductive and senescent corn stages.
- Observation Fall parasitism by Cotesia flavipes averaged 13% on D. saccharalis.
- Observation Fall parasitism by Cotesia flavipes averaged 5% on D. lineolata.
- Observation Peak Cotesia flavipes parasitism of D. saccharalis reached 53% in fall 1987.
- Observation Consistent recoveries suggest Cotesia fiavipes became established in northern Tamaulipas.