Colony growth and dispersal in the ant-tended aphid, Aphis craccivora Koch, and the non-ant-tended aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris, under the absence of predators and ants

Population Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-52

  Tokunaga, Emi ^a   Suzuki, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alatae production; Ant attendance; Dispersal rate; Mortality rate; Starvation; Walking speed

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; DISPERSAL; GROWTH RATE; HOST PLANT; MOBILITY; NATURAL ENEMY; WALKING;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; APHIS CRACCIVORA; FORMICIDAE; PISUM;

EID: 37549026234     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-007-0065-1     Document Type: Article

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