PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, cilt.77, sa.4, ss.1851-1863, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
BACKGROUND Habrobracon hebetor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a gregarious ectoparasitoid that attacks the larvae of several species of pyralid and noctuid moths. The reproduction and population dynamics of parasitoids in general are affected by host deprivation. However, how host deprivation affects H. hebetor is unknown. The effect of host deprivation on the parental generation, life table parameters, and the paralysis rate of the F-1 generation of H. hebetor were evaluated using the age-stage, two-sex life table under laboratory conditions.