Effects of the pitcher plant mining moth Exyra semicrocea on the hooded pitcher plant Sarracenia minor

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-326

  Moon, Daniel C ^a   Rossi, Anthony ^a   Stokes, Keith ^a   Moon, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MOTH; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; SARRACENIA MINOR; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 42449103860     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2008)159[321:EOTPPM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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