Thermal ecology of gregarious and solitary nettle-feeding nymphalid butterfly larvae

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Bryant, Simon R ^a,c   Thomas, Chris D ^b   Bale, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distribution; Gregariousness; Larval strategy; Lepidoptera; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION;

AGLAIS URTICAE; ANIMALIA; HESPERIA COMMA BOREALIS; HEXAPODA; INACHIS IO; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; POLYGONIA C-ALBUM; URTICA; URTICAE; VANESSA ATALANTA;

EID: 0033965806     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008825     Document Type: Article

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