XIAN , Xiaoqing

The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta, a serious pest threatening the tomato industry in South America, Africa, Europe and Central-West Asia, now has recently invaded the neighboring countries of Northwest and Southwest China. With the increasing international trade in agriculture products, T. absoluta presents a potential threat to Chinese...

Abstract When female host feeding parasitoids encounter a potential host, they face a complicated trade-off between either laying an egg for investing in current reproduction or feeding on or killing the host for future reproduction. Few studies have measured these behavioral shift patterns in a given host-parasitoid association thus far. We...