Should I fight or should I flight? How studying insect aggression can help integrated pest management

Pest Management Science

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 885-892

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behaviour based control tool; Collective defence; Hyperaggression; Learning; Mass rearing optimisation; Selection; Warfare induction

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; INSECT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING; PREDATION; SELECTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; INSECT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; INSECTS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84927670697     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3974     Document Type: Article

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