Relative Prey Weight Influences Handling Time and Biomass Extraction in Sinea confusa and Zelus renardii (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 559-565

  Cohen, Allen Carson ^a   Tang, Robert ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraction rate; Feeding time; Sinea confusa; Zelus renardii

Indexed keywords

HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HETEROPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; REDUVIIDAE; SINEA CONFUSA; ZELUS RENARDII;

EID: 0001138170     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.3.559     Document Type: Article

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