Inflexible wasps: the aphid parasitoid Lysiphlebus testaceipes does not track multiple changes in habitat profitability

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-100

  Tentelier, Cédric ^a   Lacroix, Marie Noëlle ^a   Fauvergue, Xavier ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

herbivore induced volatiles; information; irreversible learning; learning; Lysiphlebus testaceipes; marginal value theorem; optimal foraging; patch; plasticity

Indexed keywords

APHID; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; LEARNING; PARASITOID; PATCHINESS; WASP;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; LYSIPHLEBUS TESTACEIPES;

EID: 57649102130     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.031     Document Type: Article

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