Insects as Natural Enemies
Subtitle: A Practical Perspective
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9781402065873
Subjects: Insects (entomology); Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Botany; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Insect natural enemies; Insect predators; Parasitoids; Pest management; Science / Zoology; Science
First sentence: Until the late 1970s, parasitoid foraging behaviour was mostly studied from a proximate (i.e. causal or mechanistic) standpoint, with a strong emphasis on identifying which stimuli parasitoids respond to both in finding and in recognising their hosts.