Host location and selection cues in a generalist tachinid parasitoid

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-34

  Stireman III, John O ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exorista mella; Motion; Parasitoid; Polyphagy; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

GENERALIST; HOST LOCATION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITOID;

DIPTERA; EXORISTA; EXORISTA MELLA; INSECTA; TACHINIDAE; VESPIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 0036377930     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00958.x     Document Type: Article

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