Foraging behavior of egg parasitoids exploiting chemical information

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 677-689

  Fatouros, Nina E ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Mumm, Roland ^a   Meiners, Torsten ^b   Hilker, Monika ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egg parasitoids; Host foraging behavior; Infochemicals; Kairomones; Phoresy; Plant synomones; Sex pheromones

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; DIET; EGG PARASITOID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE BREADTH; PHORESY; SEX PHEROMONE; WASP;

HEXAPODA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 45349090551     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn011     Document Type: Review

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