Plant Morphological Complexity Impacts Foraging Efficiency of Adult Coccinella septempunctata L. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1219-1226

  Legrand, Ana ^a   Barbosa, Pedro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Foraging; Leaf morphology; Pisum sativum; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ACYRTHOSIPHON; ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLA; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0242499454     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.5.1219     Document Type: Article

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