The role of volatiles from cruciferous plants and pre-flight experience in the foraging behaviour of the specialist parasitoid Cotesia plutellae

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-95

  Potting, R P J ^a   Poppy, G M ^a   Schuler, T H ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Cotesia plutellae; Foraging behaviour; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Parasitoid; Plutella xylostella; Wind tunnel; Yponomeutidae

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST LOCATION; OLFACTORY CUE; PARASITOID; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMALIA; BRACONIDAE; BRASSICA NAPUS; COTESIA PLUTELLAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 0032714611     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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