Effect of expected offspring survival probability on host selection in a solitary parasitoid

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-131

  Goubault, Marlène ^a   Plantegenest, Manuel ^b   Poinsot, Denis ^a   Cortesero, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UPRES EA 3193   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Anthomyiidae; Delia radicum; Diptera; Host quality; Hymenoptera; Larval competition; Oviposition behavior; Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae; Pteromalidae; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

HOST QUALITY; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION; SUPERPARASITISM; SURVIVAL;

ANTHOMYIIDAE; DELIA; DELIA RADICUM; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PACHYCREPOIDEUS; PTEROMALIDAE;

EID: 1942456997     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2003.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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