How dietary plant nectar affects the survival, growth, and fecundity of a cursorial spider cheiracanthium inclusum (araneae: Miturgidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1379-1386

  Taylor, R M ^a   Pfannenstiel, R S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; Foraging; Helicoverpa zea; Nutrition; Starvation

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; DIET; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWTH; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOTH; NECTAR; NUTRITION; REARING; SPIDER; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ARANEAE; CHEIRACANTHIUM INCLUSUM; COMBRETACEAE; HELICOVERPA ZEA; MITURGIDAE; PRUNUS DULCIS; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTH; NECTAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; TERMINALIA; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MOTHS; NECTAR; SPIDERS; TERMINALIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449091202     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0505     Document Type: Article

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