Host handling time in a polyembryonic wasp is affected both by previous experience and by host state (parasitized or not)

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 501-510

  Segoli, Michal ^a   Harari, Ally R ^a,b   Bouskila, Amos ^a   Keasar, Tamar ^c,d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copidosoma koehleri; Experience; Host handling; Parasitoids; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

COPIDOSOMA KOEHLERI;

EID: 70350146530     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-009-9189-9     Document Type: Article

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