Interspecific interference behaviours by workers of the harvesting ant messor capitatus (Hymenoptera Formicidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-207

  Grasso, D A ^a   Mori, A ^a   Giovannotti, M ^b   Le Moli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cleptobiosis; Competition; Food monopolization; Interspecific interactions; Nest blocking

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; KLEPTOPARASITISM;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR; MESSOR CAPITATUS;

EID: 9644280872     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2004.9522631     Document Type: Article

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