Contrasting responses of southern house spiders and raccoons to blister beetle prey

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1295-1303

  Carrel, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Araneae; Cantharidin; Chemical defense; Coleoptera; Feeding aversion; Filistatidae; Mammalia; Meloidae; Procyonidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEETLE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; RACCOON; SPIDER; TASTE PREFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; FILISTATIDAE; KUKULCANIA HIBERNALIS; LYTTA; LYTTA POLITA; MAMMALIA; MELOIDAE; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; PROCYONIDAE;

EID: 0033023681     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020970624529     Document Type: Article

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