Who eats whose eggs? intra- versus inter-specific interactions in starving ladybird beetles predaceous on aphids

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-368

  Agarwala, B K ^a   Bhattacharya, S ^a   Bardhanroy, P ^a  

^a TRIPURA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Egg cluster size; Interspecific predation; Ladybird beetles

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLA; COCCINELLA TRANSVERSALIS; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; MENOCHILUS SEXMACULATUS;

EID: 0032411847     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1998.9522849     Document Type: Article

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