Infochemical-mediated preference behavior of the parasitoid Microctonus hyperodae when searching for its adult weevil hosts

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-124

  Cournoyer, Michel ^a   Boivin, Guy ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c Station de Recherches   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult parasitoid; Braconidae; Curculionidae; Host location; Host range; Hymenoptera; Kairomone; Listronotus oregonensis; New association; Olfactometer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; HOST LOCATION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OLFACTION;

APIACEAE; BRACHYCERINAE; BRACONIDAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; CURCULIONIDAE; DAUCUS; DAUCUS CAROTA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LISTRONOTUS; LISTRONOTUS OREGONENSIS; LISTRONOTUS SPARSUS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; MICROCTONUS HYPERODAE; POACEAE;

EID: 4043075601     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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