Wasp behavior leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 661-665

  Van Nouhuys, Saskya ^a,b   Ehrnsten, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg parasitism; Host marking; Hyposoter horticola; Melitaea cinxia; Population dynamics; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

HOST RANGE; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; HYPOSOTER; ICHNEUMONIDAE; MELITAEA; MELITAEA CINXIA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 3042703142     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh059     Document Type: Article

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