The escape response of pea aphids to foliar-foraging predators: Factors affecting dropping behaviour

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-61

  Losey, John E ^a   Denno, Robert F ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Coccinellid predators; Dropping behaviour; Heteropteran predators; Predator prey interactions; Prey escape response

Indexed keywords

DROPPING BEHAVIOUR; ESCAPE RESPONSE; PEA APHID; PREDATOR EVASION;

ACYRTHIOSIPHON PISUM; ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANTHOCORIDAE; APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GEOCORIS PUNCTIPES; HETEROPTERA; HOMOPTERA; LYGAEIDAE; NABIDAE; NABIS AMERICOFERUS; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS;

EID: 0031934930     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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