Feeding damage by larvae of the mustard leaf beetle deters conspecific females from oviposition and feeding

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 267-277

  Rostás, Michael ^a   Hilker, Monika ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese cabbage; Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Damage induced response; Host acceptance; Larval frass; Larval performance; Larval secretion; Oviposition behaviour; Phaedon cochleariae; Regurgitant

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DAMAGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; INSECT; OVIPOSITION; SECRETION;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. PEKINENSIS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PHAEDON; PHAEDON COCHLEARIAE;

EID: 0036626166     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00984.x     Document Type: Article

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