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Title: Parasitoids of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, in Florida

Author
item Meagher Jr, Robert

Submitted to: Florida Entomological Society Annual Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/16/2007
Publication Date: 7/16/2007
Citation: Meagher Jr, R.L. 2007. Parasitoids of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, in Florida. Florida Entomological Society Annual Meeting.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, attacks a wide variety of host plants and is a serious pest of several crops in Florida. Although no one species is a major biological control agent, FAW does have a suite of parasitoids that may affect populations. These species include the braconids Chelonus insularis Cresson, Cotesia marginiventris (Cresson), and Meteorus autographae Muesebeck, the ichneumonids Ophion flavidus Brulle, the eulophid Euplectrus platyhypenae Howard, and the tachinid Archytas marmoratus (Townsend).