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Imported Indian Parasite of Pea Aphid established in California

authors

Kenneth S. Hagen, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley.
Evert I. Schlinger, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Riverside.

publication information

California Agriculture 14(9):5-6. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v014n09p5. September 1960.

Summary

Summary Not Available – First paragraph follows:

The pea aphid—Macrosiphum pisi (Kaltenbach)—frequently causes great damage to the spring alfalfa crop in southern California.

author affiliations

Kenneth S. Hagen is Associate Entomologist, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley. Evert I. Schlinger is Assistant Entomologist, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Riverside.

author notes

Photographs by F. E. Skinner, Laboratory Technician, Department of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley.

G. W. Angalet, United States Department of Agriculture, identified, in 1958, the Indian wasp as an important factor in the biological control of the pea aphid in India.

Base map of California was provided by the Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley.

The above progress report is based on Research Project Nos. 1650 and H-1748.


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