Host-handling behavior: An innate component of foraging behavior in the parasitoid wasp Ampulex compressa

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 699-706

  Keasar, Tamar ^a   Sheffer, Noa ^b   Glusman, Gustavo ^b   Libersat, Frederic ^b  

^a ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HANDLING TIME; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; WASP;

AMPULEX COMPRESSA; BLATTARIA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 33745114399     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01214.x     Document Type: Article

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