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Volume 21 Number 4 2001
Special Issue

STATUS AND ADVANCES IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CEREAL STEMBORERS IN AFRICA

Contents

  Preface
    Review Articles
D. E. Conlong

Abstract / Résumé

267 Biological control of indigenous African stemborers: What do we know?
R. Kfir

Abstract / Résumé

275 Prospects for biological control of Chilo partellus in grain crops in South Africa
    Research Articles
D. Cugala and C. O. Omwega

Abstract / Résumé

281 Cereal stemborer distribution and abundance, and introduction and establishment of Cotesia flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Mozambique
J. M. SONGA, W. A. Overholt, J. M. Mueke and R. O. Okello

Abstract / Résumé

289 Colonisation of Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in stemborers in the semi-arid Eastern Province of Kenya
M. N. Sallam, W.A. Overholt, E. Kairu and G. Zhou

Abstract / Résumé

297 Will Cotesia flavipes drive its African homologue, Cotesia sesamiae, to extinction?
D. Cugala, W. A. Overholt, L. Santos and D. Giga

Abstract / Résumé

303 Release of Cotesia flavipes Cameron for biological control of cereal stemborers in two ecological zones in Mozambique
P. H. Sohati, E. M. Musonda and M. Mukanga

Abstract / Résumé

311 Distribution of cereal stemborers in Zambia and release of Cotesia flavipes Cameron, an exotic natural enemy of Chilo partellus (Swinhoe)
T. Matama-Kauma, S. Kyamanywa, J. A. Ogwang, C. O. Omwega and H. R. Willson

Abstract / Résumé

317 Cereal stemborer species complex and establishment of Cotesia flavipes Cameron in eastern Uganda
P. Chinwada, C. O. Omwega and W. A. Overholt

Abstract / Résumé

327 Stemborer research in Zimbabwe: Prospects for the establishment of Cotesia flavipes Cameron
E. I. Niyibigira, Z. S. Abdallah, W. A. Overholt, V. Y. Lada and A. Van Huis

Abstract / Résumé

335 Distribution and abundance, in maize and sorghum, of lepidopteron stemborers and associated indigenous parasitoids in Zanzibar
E. Nsami, B. Pallangyo, V. Mgoo and C. O. Omwega

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347 Distribution and species composition of cereal stemborers in the eastern zone of Tanzania
G. Emana, W.A. Overholt and E. Kairu

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353 Distribution and species composition of stemborers and their natural enemies in maize and sorghum in Ethiopia
L. S. Gohole and A. J. Ngi-Song

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361 The chemical ecology of host location by parasitoids of African stemborers
J. Ngi-Song and M. B. Mochiah

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369 Polymorphism for Wolbachia infections in eastern and southern African Cotesia sesamiae (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) populations
Z. R. Khan, J. A. Pickett, L. Wadhams and F. Muyekho

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375 Habitat management strategies for the control of cereal stemborers and striga in maize in Kenya
J. van den Berg, M. Rebe, J. De Bruyn and H. Van Hamburg

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381 Developing habitat management systems for gramineous stemborers in South Africa
J. Van den Berg and A. A. Ebenebe

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389 Integrated management of stemborers in Lesotho
G. Zhou, W. A. OVERHOLT and M. B. Mochiah

Abstract / Résumé

395 Changes in the distribution of lepidopteron maize stemborers in Kenya from the 1950s to 1990s
M.J. Bonhof and W.A. Overholt

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403 Impact of solar radiation, rainfall and cannibalism on disappearance of maize stemborers in Kenya
S.N. Mugo, D. Bergvinson and D. Hoisington

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409 Options in developing stemborer-resistant maize: CIMMYT's approaches and experiences

 

 

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