Changes in the Foraging Behavior, Within-Plant Vertical Distribution, and Microhabitat Selection of a Generalist Insect Predator: An Age Analysis

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 949-957

  Cisneros, Jorge J ^a   Rosenheim, Jay A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemiptera; Intraguild predation; Ontogenetic changes; Prey preference; Reduviidae

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; REDUVIIDAE; ZELUS RENARDII;

EID: 0001585307     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.4.949     Document Type: Article

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