Flexible larval development and the timing of destructive feeding by a solitary endoparasitoid: An optimal foraging problem in evolutionary perspective

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 308-315

  Hemerik, Lia ^a   Harvey, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Host quality; Koinobiont; Nutritional value; Plodia interpunctella; Trade off; Venturia canescens

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE HISTORY; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY;

HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA; PYRALIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS;

EID: 0032829381     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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