Female German cockroaches join conspecific groups based on the incidence of auditory cues

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-131

  Wijenberg, Rosanna ^a   Takács, Stephen ^a   Cook, Melissa ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory stimulus; Blattella germanica; Blattellidae; Decision making; Dictyoptera; Group size; Joining behaviour; Joining cues

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIOASSAY; COCKROACH; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; OLFACTORY CUE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHELTER; WING;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; DICTYOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 53849141511     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00758.x     Document Type: Article

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