Innate responses of the parasitoids Cotesia glomerata and C. rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to volatiles from different plant-herbivore complexes

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 525-538

  Geervliet, Jacqueline B F ^a   Vet, Louise E M ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brassica; C rataegus; C. rubecula; Cotesia glomerata; crucifers; foraging behavior; infochemical; Mamestra; olfaction; par asitoid; Pieris; Plutella; preferences; Tropaeolum

Indexed keywords

APORIA CRATAEGI; BRACONIDAE; BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HYMENOPTERA; MAMESTRA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS NAPI; PIERIS RAPAE; PLUTELLA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; ROSACEAE; TROPAEOLACEAE; TROPAEOLUM;

EID: 0029862153     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02213877     Document Type: Article

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