Indigenous knowledge of the edible weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina fabricius hymenoptera: Formicidae from the vientiane plain, Lao PDR

Ethnobiology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-12

  Van Itterbeeck, Joost ^a   Sivongxay, Niane ^b   Praxaysombath, Bounthob ^b   Van Huis, Arnold ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS   (Laos)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Edible insects; Entomophagy; Indigenous knowledge; Lao PDR; Oecophylla smaragdina; Semi cultivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901700429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21598126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14237/ebl.5.2014.125     Document Type: Article

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