Avoidance responses of an aphidophagous ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, to aphid-tending ants

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 523-528

  Oliver, Thomas H ^a   Jones, Ian ^a   Cook, James M ^b   Leather, Simon R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Footprints; Inter specifi c communication; Predator prey spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEETLE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CUTICLE; EGG; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

ADALIA BIPUNCTATA; APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LASIUS NIGER;

EID: 64549145550     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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