Wasps learn to recognize the odor of local ants

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-141

  London, Karen B ^a,b   Jeanne, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Defense; Learning; Polybia; Social wasps

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; OLFACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION;

CREMATOGASTER (GENUS); CREMATOGASTER (SUBGENUS); FORMICIDAE; POLYBIA; POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA;

EID: 20544466119     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2317/0405.06.1     Document Type: Article

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