Ecology: Web-spinning caterpillar stalks snails

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5734, 2005, Pages 575-

  Rubinoff, Daniel ^a   Haines, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INSECT; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SILK;

GASTROPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAWAII; LARVA; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SILK; SNAILS;

EID: 23344450306     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110397     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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4. N. P. Kristensen, A. W. Skalski, in Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies, N. P. Kristensen, Ed. (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1999), chap. 2.
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6. We thank M. Bryce, S. Montgomery, F. Starr, and K. Starr for bringing specimens to our attention; B. Holland and R. Cowie of the University of Hawaii for identifying snail specimens; F. Duvall for access to the Makawao Forest Reserve; and T. Lau of The Nature Conservancy Hawaii for access to the Kamakou Preserve. Figure 1A was drawn by J. Winhall-Rice.