Successful biological control results when an introduced natural enemy, very often a
parasitoid, is able to suppress the abundance of an insect pest to a level at which it no …

Summary 1 Ecologists concerned with life‐history strategies of parasitoid wasps have
recently focused on interspecific variation in the fraction of the maximum potential lifetime …

Parasitoids of the hymenopterous family Encyrtidae are one of the most important groups of
natural enemies of soft scale insects and have been used extensively in biological control …

Accurate evaluation of the biological control services provided by insect natural enemies
requires a consideration of the full diversity of means by which they can cause reductions in …

Life history theory predicts that a nontrivial proportion of parasitoids should exhaust their egg
supply during their lifetime. We reviewed the literature on egg limitation in parasitoids and …

A critical problem faced by most theoretical studies of parasitoid behavior and population
dynamics has been the paucity of empirically obtained information about the pattern of …

Parasitic wasps lay their eggs in or on other insects. Allocation of resources to reproduction
(eggs) and survival (life span) should maximize reproductive success, but stochasticity in the …

The effect of temperature on the functional response of female adults of the two-spot
ladybird, Adalia bipunctata L.(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) was examined in petri dish arenas …

Community genetics synthesizes community ecology and population genetics and yields
fresh insights into the interplay between evolutionary and ecological processes. A …

We explore models for the management of invertebrate pests by enhancing the efficacy or
local abundance of existing natural enemies. Different aspects of natural enemy biology had …