Avoidance of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) by striped cucumber beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Laboratory and field studies

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 633-640

  Williams, Jennifer L ^a,b   Wise, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cucurbit; Escape behavior; Predation; Predator stimuli

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER;

ACALYMMA; ACALYMMA VITTALUM; ACALYMMA VITTATUM; ACHAETA; ACHAETA DOMESTICA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CANIS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LYCOSIDAE; RABIDOSA; RABIDOSA RABIDA;

EID: 0038234983     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.3.633     Document Type: Article

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