Oviposition site choice in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 423-430

  Ward, Paul I ^a   Foglia, Massimiliano ^a   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SITE SELECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 0032986111     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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