Dirhinus giffardii Rearing on Irradiated and Normal Fruit Fly Pupae

ISBN-13: 9783659741289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 68 str.

Ahmed Nazir;Naveed Muhammad

Opis

Fruit flies are regarded as one of the most dangerous pest to the horticultural industry throughout the world. Mainly pesticides are exploited for controlling fruit flies but these leads to lot of ecological and environmental concerns regarding health of biotic faunna including human. Due to this the focus is now shifting towards other control practice in which bio-control attain significant importance. The fruit flies parasitoid Dirhinus giffardii currently present in sufficient quantity in fruit flies prevailing areas but there is need to exploit it as bio-control agent through classical biological control technique. In this book the rearing of this parasitoid on fruit flies pupae is illustrated.

O autorze

Muhammad Naveed passed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination from Board of Intermediate & Secondaary Education, Hyderabad in 2004 and passed Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination in 2006. Than in 2010 Graduated (B.Sc hons.) from University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) in 2010 an passed M.Sc (hons.) Entomology from UAF in 2012