| Abstract: | Abstract The parasitical behavior of Telenomus theophilae can be divided into five successive steps: examining, probing, drilling, ovipositing and marking. The total time for completing this process required 17 min 20 s in average. The time for drilling and oviposition accounts for 86. 5%. The results implied that the females of T. theophilae have a learning process of host recognition at first time of parasitization, and the percentage of superparasitism in the first host egg of Theophila mandarina (70. 6%) is 4. 8 times as that in the fourth host egg (14. 7%). |
