Attack strategies of predatory wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae; Sphecidae) on colonial orb web-building spiders (Araneidae: Metepeira incrassata)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 67-75

  Rayor, Linda S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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