Hunting for moving hosts: Cephalonomia tarsalis, a parasitoid of free-living grain beetles

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 452-457

  Collatz, Jana ^a   Steidle, Johannes L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grain odour; Habitat finding; Host finding; Host location; Kairomones; Oryzaephilus mercator; Oryzaephilus surinamensis; Parasitic wasp; Sitophilus granarius; Trails

Indexed keywords

CEPHALONOMIA TARSALIS; COLEOPTERA; ORYZAEPHILUS; ORYZAEPHILUS MERCATOR; ORYZAEPHILUS SURINAMENSIS; SITOPHILUS GRANARIUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 44449127569     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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