Colony orientation and successful defence behaviour in the conifer aphid, Schizolachnus pineti

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-200

  Völkl, Wolfgang ^a   Stadler, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body orientation; Colony structure; Defence success; Pauesia unilachni; Schizolachnus pineti; Scymnus nigrinus

Indexed keywords

SCHIZOLACHNUS PINETI;

EID: 0030037554     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00782.x     Document Type: Article

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