Oviposition behavior of the wheat stem sawfly when encountering plants infested with cryptic conspecifics

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1707-1715

  Buteler, Micaela ^a   Weaver, David K ^a   Peterson, Robert K D ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Host selection; Insect plant interactions; Intraspecific competition; Oviposition behavior

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; CRYPSIS; FLY; HERBIVORE; HOST SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; OVIPOSITION; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CROP; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; OVIPOSITION; TRITICUM;

CEPHUS CINCTUS; HEXAPODA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 71749118808     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0624     Document Type: Article

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