The role of frass and cocoon volatiles in host location by monodontomerus aeneus, a parasitoid of megachilid solitary bees

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-131

  Filella, Iolanda ^b   Bosch, Jordi ^a   Llusiá, Joan ^b   Seco, Roger ^b   Peñuelas, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cocoon; frass; Monodontomerus aeneus; Osmia cornuta; volatiles

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETIC ACID; BEE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OLFACTORY CUE; OVIPOSITION; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EGG LAYING; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEES; FECES; FEMALE; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OVIPOSITION; PHEROMONES; PUPA; SPAIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASPS;

APOIDEA; MEGACHILIDAE; MONODONTOMERUS; OSMIA CORNUTA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 79951588168     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10165     Document Type: Article

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