Nest site selection influences mortality and stress responses in developmental stages of megachile apicalis spinola (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 484-492

  Hranitz, John M ^a   Barthell, John F ^b   Thorp, Robbin W ^c   Overall, Lisa M ^b,d   Griffith, Justin L ^b,e  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Nest site selection; Parasitoids; Stress; Temperature

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

BEE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BREEDING SEASON; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GRASSLAND; HEAT SHOCK; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; NEST SITE; PARASITOID; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SITE SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; LARVA; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NESTING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LARVA; MORTALITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILE APICALIS; MEGACHILIDAE;

EID: 65249102231     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0223     Document Type: Article

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