Abstract Background Aphidophagous syrphid, Ischiodon scutellaris (Fabricius) (Diptera: Syrphidae) is an effective predator of aphids that infest many agricultural and horticultural crops. Cowpea aphid, Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae), the natural host for culturing syrphid predator, I. . The present study was conducted to evaluate feeding development on seven species aphid hosts vi...

1 http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=08111 2 The seminar was organized by Sihem Amer-Yahia, Divesh Srivastava, and Gerhard Weikum; and this report was written by the three organizers together with Djoerd Hiemstra and Thomas Roelleke. Additional participants were Peter Apers, Holger Bast, Mariano Consens, Emiran Curtmola, Debora Donato, Ingo Frommholz, Irini Fundulaki, Ihab ...