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New Zealand Journal of Zoology Volume 18, 1991 - Issue 2: Special Issue on Wasp Research
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Host specificity of the parasitoid, Sphecophaga vesparum (Curtis) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a potential biological control agent of the social wasps, Vespula germanica (Fabricius) and V. vulgaris (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Australia

R. P. FieldKeith Tumbull Research InstituteLand Protection Division Department of Conservation and Environment P.O. Box 48, Frankston, Vic.3121, Australia
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S. M. DarbyKeith Tumbull Research InstituteLand Protection Division Department of Conservation and Environment P.O. Box 48, Frankston, Vic.3121, Australia
Pages 193-197 | Received 25 May 1990, Accepted 02 Oct 1990, Published online: 22 Nov 2013
 
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Abstract

Choice, non-choice, and host location tests using Sphecophaga vesparum indicated that brood of some Australian native Polistes, Ropalidia, and Trigona species would not be at risk from releases of the parasitoid in Australia. Capped brood of two species of Polistes, four species of Ropalidia, and the stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria, were screened. Only two cells of R. plebeiana and one of R. revolutionalis produced cocoons of S. vesparum. S. vesparum was approved for release in Australia and released in metropolitan Melbourne (Victoria) in December 1989.

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