Egg limitation, host quality, and dynamic behavior by a parasitoid in the field

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2410-2420

  Heimpel, George E ^a,b   Rosenheim, Jay A ^a   Mangel, Marc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphytis; Egg limitation; Egg load; Host feeding; Host quality; Oviposition; Parasitoid; Quadraspidiotus perniciosus

Indexed keywords

APHYTIS; APHYTIS AONIDIAE; DIASPIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; QUADRASPIDIOTUS; QUADRASPIDIOTUS PERNICIOSUS; VESPIDAE; APHELINIDAE; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA;

ARMOURED SCALE; EGG LIMITATION; HOST QUALITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITOID WASP;

EID: 0030390061     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265742     Document Type: Article

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