Tachinid parasitoids affect host plant choice by caterpillars to increase caterpillar survival

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 603-611

  Karban, Richard ^a   English Loeb, Gregory ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Host plant choice; Nonlethal parasitism; Parasite induced altered behavior; Parasitoid; Preference vs. performance; Tachinidae; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITOID;

DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLATYPREPIA VIRGINALIS; TACHINIDAE; THELAIRA AMERICANA;

EID: 0030616878     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0603:TPAHPC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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