Consequences of the instar stage for behavior in a pit-building antlion

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-111

  Alcalay, Yehonatan ^a   Barkae, Erez David ^a   Ovadia, Ofer ^a   Scharf, Inon ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavioral profiles; Behavioral syndromes; Consistency; Morphology; Personality; Trap building predators

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY MASS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR; PREY CAPTURE; SOIL FAUNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSTAR STAGE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEUROPTERA; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PIT BUILDING ANTLION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; RESPONSE TIME;

BEHAVIORAL PROFILES; BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES; CONSISTENCY; MORPHOLOGY; PERSONALITY; TRAP-BUILDING PREDATORS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEAD; INDIVIDUALITY; INSECTS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PERSONALITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84890838131     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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