A difficult choice for tiny pests: Host-seeking behaviour in Xenos vesparum triungulins

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Manfredini, F ^a   Massolo, A ^b   Beani, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

gregariousness; host seeking behaviour; infective larva; koinobiont parasitoid; Strepsiptera; triungulin

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENDOPARASITE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; OPEN SPACE; PEST SPECIES; WASP;

POLISTES DOMINULUS; STREPSIPTERA; XENOS; XENOS VESPARUM;

EID: 78650116111     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2010.502319     Document Type: Article

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