Benefits of larval group feeding by Chrysolina aurichalcea asclepiadis on Vincetoxicum: Improved host location or feeding facilitation?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 220-228

  Weed, Aaron S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Apocynaceae; Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Conspecific cues; Larval growth; Vincetoxicum nigrum; Vincetoxicum rossicum

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONSPECIFIC; DICOTYLEDON; FEEDING; GROUP SIZE; HOST LOCATION; HOST PLANT; LARVA; NEONATE;

APOCYNACEAE; CHRYSOLINA AURICHALCEA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CHRYSOMELINAE; COLEOPTERA; CYNANCHUM ROSSICUM; HEXAPODA; VINCETOXICUM; VINCETOXICUM NIGRUM;

EID: 78349241401     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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