Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"host searching behavior"”.
-
Release and monitoring of Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) for biological control of the hemlock woolly adelgid in the eastern US
… adults or branch clipping for immatures, and the host searching behavior of L. nigrinus was studied to understand how it locates a tree and HWA. In the Appalachians, beat sheet sampling resulted in false negatives as larvae were collected by branch clipping. Adults orientated to a tree visually, …
-
Learning and Olfactory Processing by the Parasitic Wasp, Cotesia Congregata, In Response to Concentration of Herbivore Related Tomato Volatiles
… volatiles, in a manner that may allow host searching behavior to use continuous concentration differences, and the concentration a parasitic wasp encounters during learning and host searching seems to be an independent and important factor in understanding parasitoid behavior in …