“…Luginbill (1928), and Vickery (1929) indicated that C. insularis was an important parasitoid controlling FAW populations in its overwintering habitats of Florida and Southern Texas. This parasitoid is reported to attack eggs and larvae of noctuids such as F. subterranean, P. saucia, T. ni, H. zea, S. eridania, S. exigua, S. frugiperda, S. ornithogalli, S. praefica, and the pyralids, Loxostege stictidalis (L.), Ephestia eleutella (Hbn), and it is distributed in the US (Ashley et al 1980(Ashley et al , 1982(Ashley et al , 1983Ashley 1986, Butler et al 1982, Pair et al 1986, Andrews 1988, Africa, and Hawaii (Marsh 1978), and Venezuela (Notz 1972). In this survey, C. insularis was found in FAW larvae collected from V2, and V3 corn.…”