Caterpillars overwintering on spruce roost near their food

Folia Oecologica

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-78

  Dvorackova, Katarína ^a   Kulfan, Ján ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOREST ECOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Caterpillars; Lepidoptera. norway spruce; Roosting positions; Winter

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CRYPSIS; MOTH; OVERWINTERING; ROOSTING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALCIS REPANDATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HYLAEA; LEPIDOPTERA; PERIBATODES; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; THERA;

EID: 76149146065     PISSN: 13365266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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