Attraction to conspecific eggs may guide oviposition site selection in a solitary insect

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 110-116

  Raitanen, Jani ^a   Forsman, Jukka T ^a   Kivelä, Sami M ^b   Mäenpää, Maarit I ^a,c   Välimäki, Panu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Host preference; Insect; Performance hypothesis; Pieris napi; Preference ; Social information

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; EGG; ENTOMOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HOST PLANT; HOST QUALITY; HOST SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; OVIPOSITION; SITE SELECTION;

EID: 84890728011     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art092     Document Type: Article

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