Spiders use airborne cues to respond to flying insect predators by building orb-web with fewer silk thread and larger silk decorations

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 686-692

  Nakata, Kensuke ^a  

^a TOKYO KEIZAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PARASITOID; SPIDER; WASP;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 44949181005     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01506.x     Document Type: Article

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