Host preferences in a phonotactic parasitoid of field crickets: The relative importance of host song characters

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 478-484

  Wagner Jr , William E ^a   Basolo, Alexandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calling song; Eavesdropping; Field cricket; Gryllus lineaticeps; Host preference; Ormia ochracea; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; FLY; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; SELECTION; SIGNALING; SONG;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS LINEATICEPS; HEXAPODA; ORMIA OCHRACEA;

EID: 34848873475     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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