Only 2 species of parasitoids parasitized naturally occurring egg masses of C.

Before this pest arrived, the BQ sand wasp parasitized various kinds of native stink bugs.

Dipteran families including Asilidae, Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Tabanidae have also been found parasitized by entomopathogenic fungi (EVANS, 1982; WATSON et at., 1993; STEENBERG et al., 2001; LASTRA et al., 2006; ARAUJO & HUGHES, 2016).

The number of nymphs (healthy and parasitized ) and adults of D.

First, we tested to see if proportion of offspring culled differed between species and between parasitized and nonparasitized broods.

(1982) as the number of parasitized individuals divided by the total number of individuals sampled, expressed as a percentage.

However, the numbers of parasitized host-egg by parasitoid tends to decrease with the increasing age of the host (Pizzol, Desneux, Wajnberg, & Thiery, 2012).

8 to educate growers in field identification and management of the VMB, and the identification of parasitized mealybugs and insects that are effective mealybug predators.

It appears the nest may have been parasitized by a cowbird, as one egg is larger and differently colored.

From the results obtained, we notice that the parasitic procession is more felt in the third stage larvae (L3) with a rate of 51%, the larvae of the second stage (L2) are parasitized to 18%, the pupae are parasitized at 28% and pre-nymphs at 3% (Fig.