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Keywords: Biocontrol agent parasitoids Bathyplectes curculionis, B. anurus, B. stenostigma, Tetrastichus insertus, Patasson luna, Microctonus colesi, M. aethiopoides, biology, control measures available, purpose of alfalfa weevil management, standardization and improvement of research techniques, adult alfalfa weevil sampling, collection of field samples for life table construction, quantitative biology studies, diapause rate, duration and termination, adult survival, oviposition rate, and dispersal between habitats, mortality factors affecting B. curculionis, fall predation by the field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus, as well as carabids Abacidus permundus, Evarthrus sodalis, Harpalus pennsylvanicus, Scarites subterraneus,

Economic threshold, timing of insecticide applications, practical achievements toward improved weevil control, measuring and recording temperature, counting larvae and measuring plant height, sampling frequency, degree-day ranges, host plant resistance

Major alfalfa insect pests: alfalfa weevil Hypera postica, H. brunneipennis, pea aphid Acrythosiphon pisum, spotted alfalfa aphid Therioaphis maculata, Sitona weevil species, potato leafhopper Emposaca sp.