Why are wasps so intimidating: Field experiments on hunting dragonflies (Odonata: Aeshna grandis)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 505-511

  Kauppinen, Juha ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; COLOR; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; WASP;

AESHNA GRANDIS; AESHNIDAE; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); AVES; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ODONATA; VERTEBRATA; VESPIDAE; VESPULA; VESPULA NORWEGICA;

EID: 0042285485     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2225     Document Type: Article

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