Determination of temperature thresholds for the parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), using life cycle simulation modeling: Implications for effective field releases in classical biological control of fruit flies

• Shepard Ndlela ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sndlela@icipe.org, shepardndlela@gmail.com

  Affiliation Plant Health Division, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0015-9946

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• Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Plant Health Division, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-3803

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• Samira A. Mohamed

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Health Division, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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