Manual of Biocontrol Agents Abbreviated Entry*
Active substance:
Cotesia marginiventris
Nomenclature
Targets:
- Agrotis ipsilon (dark sword grass, black cutworm)
- Anagrapha falcifera (celery looper)
- Autographa precationis (common looper)
- Autoplusia egena (bean leaf skeletonizer)
- Chrysodeixis includens (soybean looper)
- Helicoverpa zea (American bollworm, corn earworm, tomato fruitworm, New World bollworm)
- Heliothis virescens (tomato budworm, tobacco budworm)
- Hymenia perspectalis (spotted beet webworm moth)
- Leucania latiuscula
- Leucania multisulca
- Mamestra brassicae (cabbage moth)
- Noctuidae (armyworm, cutworm, owlet moth, stem borers)
- Peridroma saucia (pearly underwing)
- Plathypena scabra (black snout, green cloverworm)
- Pseudaletia unipuncta (armyworm, true armyworm)
- Scotorythra caryopsis
- Spodoptera eridania (Southern armyworm)
- Spodoptera exigua (beet armyworm, small mottled willow)
- Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm, corn leafworm, Southern grassworm)
- Spodoptera ornithogalli (yellow-striped armyworm)
- Spodoptera praefica (western yellow-striped armyworm)
- Spoladea recurvalis (Hawaiian beet webworm, maize moth)
- Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper, ni moth)
Biogeography:
Native to the West Indies and Cuba. Now widespre... Click here to retrieve this information.
Biological Activity
Mode of Action:
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Toxicology
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This is an extract from the Manual of Biocontrol Agents produced by the BCPC. The manual has been substantially revised and updated to reflect the growth and maturity of the global biocontrol industry.
It contains up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive information on over 200 active substances which are commercially available in products including:
- 90+ micro-organisms
- 15+ botanicals
- 80+ macro-organisms
- 31+ semiochemicals