A parasitoid wasp uses landmarks while monitoring potential resources

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1633, 2008, Pages 377-385

  Van Nouhuys, Saskya ^a   Kaartinen, Riikka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Hyposoter horticola; Melitaea cinxia; Population dynamics; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST; LANDSCAPE; MEMORY; PARASITOID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ARTICLE; EGG PARASITOID; FEMALE; FORAGER; HOST; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PARASITOID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYPOSOTER HORTICOLA; MELITAEA CINXIA;

EID: 37849044962     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1446     Document Type: Article

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