Vibrational communication facilitates cooperative foraging in a phloem-feeding insect

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 1023-1029

  Cocroft, Reginald B ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorusing; Cooperation; Insect plant interactions; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEMIPTERA; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VIBRATION;

CALLOCONOPHORA; CALLOCONOPHORA PINGUIS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MEMBRACIDAE;

EID: 21744444420     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3041     Document Type: Article

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