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LARVAL PARASITOID OF THE ZEBRA CATERPILLAR, MELANCHRA PICTA (HARRIS) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) ON BLUEBERRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

S.Y. Li ,
D.E. Henderson  and
R. Feng
S.Y. Li
Affiliation:
E. S. Cropconsult Limited, 2962 West 15th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 3A3
D.E. Henderson
Affiliation:
E. S. Cropconsult Limited, 2962 West 15th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 3A3
R. Feng
Affiliation:
E. S. Cropconsult Limited, 2962 West 15th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 3A3
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The zebra caterpillar, Melanchra picta (Harris), has been reported as a minor pest of corn (Philip 1990) and some small fruits (Belton 1988; Fitzpatrick and Troubridge 1991) in British Columbia. This pest also infests various vegetables, blueberries, and currants, and has become more and more abundant lately in the Fraser Valley (unpublished data). The larval parasitoid Limneria annulipes Harris (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) has been reported to parasitize zebra caterpillar populations in eastern Canada (Maxson 1948). Fitzpatrick (pers. comm.) found Winthemia quadripustulata (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Tachinidae) from zebra caterpillars in British Columbia. Here we report the occurrence of another larval parasitoid reared from natural populations of M. picta collected from commercial high bush blueberry fields in Delta, British Columbia, during June of 1992.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 125 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 405 - 406
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1993

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