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Augmentative on-farm delivery methods for the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to control the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Burkina Faso and Niger

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10526-014-9613-8
 
Title Augmentative on-farm delivery methods for the parasitoid
Habrobracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
to control the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella
(de Joannis) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Burkina Faso
and Niger
 
Creator Ba, M N
Baoua, I B
Kabore, A
Amadou, L
Oumarou, N
Dabire-Binso, C
Sanon, A
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Augmentative on-farm delivery methods for the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to control the millet head miner (MHM) Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) were investigated in Burkina Faso from 2011 to 2012 and in Niger in 2012. Our findings indicate that 7 cm 9 10 cm jute bags containing 50 g of millet grains, 30 g of millet flour, 25
Corcyra cephalonica larvae and two mated H. hebetor
females are the most effective option for on-farm
delivery of the parasitoid. The parasitoid progeny
started emerging from the bags eight days after
confinement and 57–71 parasitoid adults emerged from each bag. Using the methods we developed, over
90 %parasitism of MHM larvae was achieved in millet
farms. The implications of these findings for a large
extension of MHM biocontrol program are discussed.
 
Publisher Kluwer Academic
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8560/1/BioControl_59_689%E2%80%93696_2014.pdf
Ba, M N and Baoua, I B and Kabore, A and Amadou, L and Oumarou, N and Dabire-Binso, C and Sanon, A (2014) Augmentative on-farm delivery methods for the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to control the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Burkina Faso and Niger. BioControl, 59 (6). pp. 689-696. ISSN 1386-6141