<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Field performance of the parasitoid wasp, Trichogrammatoidea armigera (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) following releases against the millet head miner, Heliocheilus albipunctella (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Sahel</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">L</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Karimoune</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M N</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ba</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">I B</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Baoua</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Muniappan</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>The effectiveness of the egg parasitoid&#13;
Trichogrammatoidea armigera Nagaraja (Hymenoptera:&#13;
Trichogrammatidae) in controlling Heliocheilus&#13;
albipunctella de Joannis (Lepidoptera:&#13;
Noctuidae), a major insect pest of pearl millet in the&#13;
Sahel was assessed during two consecutive years in&#13;
Niger on-station and on-farm conditions. We found&#13;
that released T. armigera were able to find and&#13;
parasitize host eggs within pearl millet fields both onstation&#13;
and in farmers’ fields. On-station releases of T.&#13;
armigera led to an average 4.86-fold increase in T.&#13;
armigera parasitism compared to control fields, where&#13;
no parasitoids were released. Likewise, on-farm&#13;
releases of T. armigera led to up to 5.31-fold more&#13;
egg parasitism by T. armigera in release fields than in&#13;
control. Our results suggest the effectiveness of T.&#13;
armigera and lays the groundwork for using T.armigera in augmentative biological control of H.&#13;
albipunctella in the Sahel.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Pearl Millet</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Entomology</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Niger</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-04</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Springer</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>