The attractiveness of different odour sources from the fruit-host complex on Leptopilina boulardi, a larval parasitoid of frugivorous Drosophila spp.

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-82

  Couty, Aude ^a,b   Kaiser, Laure ^a   Huet, Dominique ^a   Pham Delegue, Minh Hà ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b IACR Rothamsted ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Host selection; Host fruit complex; Insect parasitoid; Learning; Leptopilina boulardi; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

HOST LOCATION; PARASITOID;

DROSOPHILA; LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI;

EID: 0033052659     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1999.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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