Perfumed to be killed: Interception of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) sexual signaling by predatory foraging wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 228-234

  Hendrichs, Martha Andrea ^a   Hendrichs, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Food Agric Organisation/Intl A   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ceratitis capitate; Lek; Predation; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

CAPITATA; CERATITIS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; TEPHRITIDAE; VESPIDAE; VESPULA GERMANICA;

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PREDATION; PREY BEHAVIOUR; SEX BIAS; SEXUAL SIGNAL;

EID: 0031871698     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aesa/91.2.228     Document Type: Article

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