Foraging behavior of the coccinellid nephus includens (coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in response to aphis gossypii (hemiptera: Aphididae) with particular emphasis on larval parasitism

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 835-843

  Bayoumy, Mohamed H ^a  

^a Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

attack rate; functional response; handling time; Homalotylus flaminius; numerical response

Indexed keywords

APHID; BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG PRODUCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HANDLING TIME; PARASITISM; PREDATION; WASP;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEETLES; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS GOSSYPII; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; ENCYRTIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEMIPTERA; HOMALOTYLUS; NEPHUS;

EID: 80051768108     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10298     Document Type: Article

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