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Volume 17 Number 1 , January – March 1997

(Special issue on Ecology and management of tropical gramineous stemborers)

Foreword

Keynote Address

Page  
K F NWANZE
1
Integrated management of stemborers of sorghum and pearl millet
Research articles  

 

 
K MAES
9
The taxonomy of the lepidepteran cereal stemborers of Africa
A POLASZEK
13
An overview of parasitoids of African lepidopteran cereal stemborers (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea, Ceraphronoidea, Ichneumonoidea, Ptabygastroidea)
M J BONHOF,
W A OVERHOLT,
A VAN HUIS and
A POLASZEK

19
Natural enemies of maize stemborers in East Africa: A review
J W SMITH Jr and
R N WEIDENMANN

37
Foraging strategies of stemborer parasites and their application to biological control
R N WEIDENMANN and
J W SMITH Jr

51
Novel associations and importation biological control: The need for ecological and physiological equivalencies
R KFIR
61
Natural control of the cereal stemborers Busseola fusca and Chilo partellus in South Africa
D E CONLONG
69
Biological control of Eldana saccharina Walker in South African sugarcane: Constraints identified from 15 years of research
W A OVERHOLT,
A J NGI-SONG,
C O OMWEGA,
S W KIMANI-NJOGU,
J MBAPILA,
M N SALLAM and
V OFOMATA

79
A review of the introduction and establishment of Cotesia flavipes Cameron in East Africa for biological control of cereal stemborers
Y HAILEMICHAEL,
F SCHULTHESS,
J W SMITH Jr and
W A OVERHOLT

89
Suitability of West African gramineous stemborers for the development of Cotesia species
F SCHULTHESS,
N A BOSQUE-PEREZ,
A CHABI-OLAYE,
S GOUNOU,
R NDEMAH and
G GOERGEN

97
Exchange of natural enemies of lepidopteran cereal stemborers between African regions
R P J POTTING
109
Evolutionary and applied aspects of the behavioural ecology of the stemborer parasitoid Cotesia flavipes
S W KIMANI-NJOGU and
W A OVERHOLT

119
Biosystematics of the Cotesia flavipes species complex (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), parasitoids of gramineous stemborers
K TAKASU and
W A OVERHOLT

131
Aggressive behaviour of Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) larvae against the parasitoid, Cotesia flavipes Cameron
C O OMWEGA and
W A OVERHOLT

137
Progeny production and sex ratios of field populations of Cotesia flavipes and Cotesia sesamiae reared from gramineous stemborers in coastal Kenya
Z R KHAN,
P CHILISWA,
K AMPONG-NYARKO,
L E SMART
A POLASZEK,
J WANDERA and
M A MULAA

143
Utilisation of wild gramineous plants for the management of cereal stemborers in Africa
J VAN DEN BERG
151
Use of a moth production index to assess the impact of sorghum varieties in management of Chilo partellus in southern Africa
B BERGVINSON,
M WILLCOX and
D HOISINGTON

157
Efficacy and deployment of transgenic plants for stemborer management
O YOUM,
P S BEEVER,
D R HALL,
L J MCVEIGH

169
The potential use of pheromones for the management of Coniesta ignefusalis (Hampson)

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