Food imprinting revisited: Early learning in foraging predatory mites

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 883-897

  Schausberger, Peter ^a   Walzer, Andreas ^a   Hoffmann, Daniela ^a   Rahmani, Hasan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Frankliniella Occidentalis; Learning; Non Associative; Predation; Tetranychus Urticae

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; FRANKLINIELLA OCCIDENTALIS; NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 77952477394     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X495799     Document Type: Article

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