Leaf scraping beetle feces are a food resource for tree hole mosquito larvae

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 181-184

  Daugherty, Matthew P ^a,b   Juliano, Steven A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOSQUITO;

COLEOPTERA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; SCIRTIDAE;

EID: 0037770204     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)150[0181:LSBFAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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