“…A negative correlation between temperature and fecundity has been repeatedly reported in many parasitoids (Sorokina 1978;Zaslavskiy and May Phu Qui 1982;Atamirzaeva 1991;Pavlik 1992;Scott et al 1997;Wang and Ferro 1998). In our findings, fecundity of parasitoids was considerably reduced due to high temperature shocks, in congruence with earlier reports on Trichogramma species (Calvin et al 1984;Chihrane et al 1993;Chihrane and Lauge 1996;Reznik et al 1997;Maisonhaute et al 1999;Singh and Ram 2006;Reznik and Vaghina 2006a, b;Ayvaz et al 2008).…”