Winter foraging patterns and voluntary hypothermia in the social caterpillar Eucheira socialis

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-44

  Fitzgerald, Terrence D ^a   Underwood, Dessie L A ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caterpillar; Eucheira socialis; Foraging pattern; Pieridae; Thermoregulation; Voluntary hypothermia

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; COLD TOLERANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; WINTER;

MEXICO;

EUCHEIRA SOCIALIS; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 0033995236     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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