Diglyphus isaea Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is an important ectoparasitic wasp of many leaf miners. Ability of D. isaea to find hosts placed in artificial mines and for its larvae to pupate when the larva is not in a mine was studied. Artificial mines consisted of slits cut in index card sandwiched between two cover slips. Almost 80% of the neonate larvae of D. isaea located host larvae in...

The role of induced responses of tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, in interspecific interactions between two polyphagous herbivores, the silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii (WF), and the vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza trifolii (LM), was characterized in laboratory and field experiments. Feeding by LMs and WFs induced local and systemic production of putative defensive proteins, i.e., chiti...

Liriomyza huidobrensis, L. sativae and trifolii are polyphagous agromyzid leafminers that have recently arrived in Australia, posing a threat to Australian vegetable ornamental crops. Adventive endemic hymenopteran parasitoids of already present Australia should assist the management these invasive species. Neochrysocharis formosa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae) is an idiobiont endoparas...