title: [Control efficacy of Trichogramma japonicum against Chilo suppressalis and Chilaraea auricilia].
abstract: In order to understand the relationships of the population increase capacities between egg parasitoid Trichogramma japonicum Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) and two rice borers Chilo suppressalis Walker and Chilaraea auricilia Dudgeon (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), and to evaluate the control efficacy of T. japonicum against C. suppressalis and C. auricilia, life table method was adopted to establish the experimental population life tables of the two rice borers and the population fecundity tables of T. japonicum on the two hosts, and to estimate the fecundity and parasitism capacity of T. japonicum on the two hosts. The generation period (T) of C. suppressalis and C. auricilia was 56.40 d and 47.80 d, and their intrinsic rate of natural increase (r(m)) was 0.0489 and 0.072; while the T of T. japonicum on C. suppressalis and C. auricilia was 9.75 d and 9.78 d, and the r(m) was 0.3154 and 0.3161, respectively. These parameters indicated that T. japonicum could control the two rice borers effectively.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Insect Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. hongfan211@sohu.com
authors.forename: Hong-Fan
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shou-Shan
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yu-Zhu
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Ze-Hui
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006927:Hymenoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology; D015993:Life Tables; D012275:Oryza / Q000469:parasitology*; D010063:Ovum / Q000502:physiology; D010572:Pest Control, Biological / Q000379:methods