Close-range host searching behavior of the stemborer parasitoids Cotesia sesamiae and Dentichasmias busseolae: Influence of a non-host plant Melinis minutiflora

Agriculture & Biology

• Cotesia sesamiae 100%
• Melinis minutiflora 97%
• searching behavior 80%
• host seeking 74%
• parasitoids 52%
• host plants 34%
• foraging 22%
• wasps 14%
• Poaceae 14%
• Hymenoptera 11%
• Crambidae 9%
• Ichneumonidae 8%
• habitats 8%
• Braconidae 8%
• intercropping 7%
• Sorghum bicolor 7%
• Noctuidae 7%
• Sorghum (Poaceae) 7%
• Zea mays 5%
• bioassays 5%
• Lepidoptera 5%
• stems 4%
• corn 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• host range 87%
• parasitoid 83%
• host plant 77%
• grass 49%
• wasp 27%
• sorghum 25%
• foraging behavior 25%
• lepidopteran 15%
• intercropping 14%
• habitat 11%
• cereal 10%
• bioassay 9%
• stem 8%
• maize 8%
• damage 6%