Cheating on a mutualism: Indirect benefits of ant attendance to a coccidophagous coccinellid

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-149

  Liere, Heidi ^a   Perfecto, Ivette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant hemipteran mutualism; Coccinellidae; Coffee; Mexico; Myrmecophily

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; COFFEE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHILY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COFFEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMIPTERA; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MEXICO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEETLES; COFFEA; HEMIPTERA; LARVA; MEXICO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AZTECA INSTABILIS; AZYA ORBIGERA; COCCIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COCCUS VIRIDIS; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 39749173027     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[143:COAMIB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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