Proximate and ultimate factors influencing oviposition site selection by endoparasites on conifer seed cones: Two sympatric dipteran species on larch

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-13

  McClure, Martha ^a   Quiring, Dan T ^a   Turgeon, Jean J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Oviposition avoidance; Oviposition site selection; Performance; Preference; Seed cone; Specialist herbivores; Strobilomyia laricis; Strobilomyia viaria

Indexed keywords

ENDOPARASITE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; OFFSPRING PERFORMANCE; OVIPOSITION; SITE SELECTION;

ANTHOMYIIDAE; DIPTERA; LARIX LARICINA; STROBILOMYIA LARICIS; STROBILOMYIA VIARIA;

EID: 0031966199     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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