“…This parasitoid is considered to be one of the most promising biological control (BC) agents for many stored-product pests, including the Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), the Mediterranean fl our moth, Ephestia kuehniella (Zeller), the rice moth Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton), the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella L., the cotton bollworm Helicorverpa armigera (Hübner), and also the millet head miner, Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis), thanks to its cosmopolitan distribution and ability to regulate populations of many destructive moth pests of stored-food commodities (Payne et al, 2011;Adarkwah et al, 2014;Ba et al, 2014;Ghimire & Philipps, 2014). The parasitoid is sold commercially as a biological control agent, whilst because it can easily be mass reared, indigenous populations have also been reared and released in the fi eld or in storage for effecEur.…”