Some Aspects of Life for Egg Parasite Pseudoligosita babylonica Viggiani (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
Nidaa Saud Al-Shammary *
Department of Plant Protection, Collage of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
Mohammed Shakir Manjy
Department of Plant Protection, Collage of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Due to the importance of egg parasitoids inthe natural and biological control of economically important insects, including egg parasitoid Pseudoligositaba bylonica Viggiani on dubas bug, the spread of the parasitoid and population distribution of parasitoid, In order to estimate the role of parasitoid as one of the biological factors in decreasing population density of dubas bug on date palm. Some aspects of the life of parasitoids were also studied, including the role of insect parasitoids in organizing the population of their families, geographical distribution and hosts range of genus Pseudoligosita, seasonal presence of parasitoid Pseudoligositaba bylonica Viggiani (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) , life studies and percentages of parasitism, chemical control, and its negative effects on the side-infested insect parasitoids.
Keywords: Egg parasite, Pseudoligosita babylonica, viggiani, date palm, dubas bug