The Importance of Prey for Fecundity and Behavior in the Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Predator Calosoma sycophanta (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 458-462

  Spieles, Douglas J ^a   Horn, David J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calosoma sycophanta; Lymantria dispar; Predation; Prey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005286425     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.2.458     Document Type: Article

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