Effect of food plant switching by a herbivore on its parasitoid: Cotesia melanoscela development in Lymantria dispar exposed to reciprocal dietary crosses

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-45

  Kruse, James J ^b   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotesia melanoscela; Dispersal; Host plant switching; Larval dispersal; Lymantria dispar; Parasitism; Tritrophic level interactions

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACER; BRACONIDAE; COTESIA MELANOSCELA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIIDAE; POPULUS;

EID: 0032933226     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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