Leaf surface preference in the cabbage worm, Pieris rapae crucivora, and parasitism by the gregarious parasitoid Cotesia glomerata

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-43

  Tagawa, J ^a   Matsushita, A ^a   Watanabe, T ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Braconidae; Brassicaceae; Escape; Food plant; Herbivore; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Lower surface; Oviposition; Pieridae

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EGG PRODUCTION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERB; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LEAF AREA; MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM; PARASITOID;

BRACONIDAE; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICACEAE; CAPITATA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 51749100435     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00750.x     Document Type: Article

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