Food stress causes differential survival of socially parasitic caterpillars of Maculinea rebeli integrated in colonies of host and non-host Myrmica ant species

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-63

  Elmes, G W ^a   Wardlaw, J C ^a   Schonrogge K ^a   Thomas, J A ^a   Clarke, R T ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Conservation; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae; Myrmecophily; Social parasite

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; HOST SPECIFICITY; PARASITE; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SURVIVAL;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA; MYRMICA; MYRMICA SCHENCKI; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 1342314744     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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