Is Trichogramma a parasite?

Scientific name: Trichogramma spp. All members of this family parasitize insect eggs. There are approximately 650 species. Common hosts: Eggs of hundreds of species of insects, especially moths, butterflies, and sawflies.

What type of parasitoid is Trichogramma?

Trichogramma is a genus of minute polyphagous wasps that are endoparasitoids of insect eggs.

Is Trichogramma a Chilonis?

chilonis were produced by the local Trichogramma rearing facility in Mangshi, Dehong Prefecture, where the wasps had been reared for >20 generations on eggs of C. cephalonica.

What is Trichogramma target insect?

The primary target pest species are moth larvae or eggs and various beetle larvae.

What is the life span of Trichogramma?

Total life span may be 7-75 days depending upon temperature, relative humidity and species of moth parasitized. There may be 30 or more generations per season. Trichogramma is shipped as parasitized moth eggs fixed to cardboard sheets. Each sheet holds about 125,000 Trichogramma.

Can Trichogramma wasps fly?

Because of the exceptional well developed sense of smell the tricogramma finds the eggs of food moths and parasites these. The ichneumon wasp cannot fly and is therefore only effective in a limited area (1 tricho card per shelf).

How do you grow Trichogramma?

Modify cropping practices by practicing crop rotation and by planting cultivars which are favorable to Trichogramma population build-up such as wild carrots, dill, golden rod, leguminous plants, and flowering vegetables. Adults feed only on nectar, pollen, and honeydew.

What do Trichogramma wasps eat?

Adult trichogramma wasps feed on pollen and nectar. It’s their young that wreak havoc on harmful worms and catepillars because trichogramma wasps parasitize the eggs of moths, worms, and butterflies (Lepidoptera).

How do you release Trichogramma wasps?

Place a pinch of loose Trichogramma or a cardstock tab or piece of a tab of Trichogramma card. This gives emerging wasps energy to go out foraging for moth eggs, they may live up to four times longer and lay more eggs. Releasing adults is ideal when you can be ready to release when they are emerging.

How long do Trichogramma wasps live?

14 days
Adult Trichogramma can live up to 14 days after emergence. Some of the common pests Trichogramma combat are: Cabbageworm, Tomato Hornworm, Corn Earworm, Codling Moth, Cutworm, Armyworm, Webworm, Cabbage Looper, Corn Borer, Fruitworms, and Cane Borers. Some of the popular hosts of T.