CHEN , Yong-Ming

The Japanese giant silkwormCaligula japonicaMoore is an emerging defoliator pest of forest and fruit trees, causing severe economic losses in East Asia. To identify biological control agents for this pest, we comparatively evaluated six indigenous eupelmid egg parasitoids (Anastatus fulloi,A. gansuensis,A. japonicus,A. meilingensis,Mesocomys...

Trichogramma parasitoids are biological control agents of a large number of lepidopterous pests. Mass production of these Trichogramma parasitoids is carried out on different factitious host eggs where the cost for mass rearing is high and the production efficiency is low. Therefore, efficient means and techniques for mass production of these...

The age ofTrichogrammaparasitoids could influence biological traits which are of great importance for effectiveness of mass rearing systems. Recent studies demonstrated thatTrichogramma ostriniae(TO) could parasitizeAntheraea pernyieggs through multiparasitism along with other Trichogrammaspecies, although few adults could emerge successfully....