Title: Host-Seeking Behaviors of Parasitoids and Predators Influenced by Host-Infested Plants

and How Hosts Coping it.

Student’s Name: Erfanus Jane (7111030505)

Course Name: 7148 – Insect-Plant Interaction

Professor’s Name: Shaw-Yhi Hwang, Ph.D.
Date of submission: October 19, 2022

1. Abstract

2. Introduction
 Background of Pest and its effects on agricultural crops
 Issues about the use of chemicals for pest control
 Biocontrol (predators and parasitoids) as an alternative control strategy

3. Main section
 an example of how predators attack host plants that are attacked by pests.
 an example of how parasitoids attack host plants that are attacked by pests.
 an example of how pests deal with emergency signals from host plants
4. Conclusion
 Compile all the information and concluding remark

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Song, Y., Liu, C., & Cai, P. (2021). Host-Seeking Behavior of Aphidius gifuensis (Hymenoptera:
Braconidae) Modulated by Chemical Cues Within a Tritrophic Context. Journal of Insect
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