The role of host species, age and defensive behaviour on ovipositional decisions in a solitary specialist and gregarious generalist parasitoid (Cotesia species)

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-132

  Brodeur, Jacques ^a   Geervliet, Jacqueline B F ^b   Vet, Louise E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Cotesia; host acceptance; host defensive behaviour; host size; host specificity; parasitoid; Pieridae; Pieris

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HYMENOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS NAPI; PIERIS RAPAE; VESPIDAE; COTESIA RUBECULA; LEPIDOPTERA;

DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR; HOST ACCEPTANCE; HOST SIZE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID;

EID: 0029660543     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb02024.x     Document Type: Article

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