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Does Certain Host and Food Deprivation Period Affect Host Feeding and Oviposition Behaviour of Eretmocerus warrae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
... dish. Host feeding was recorded if the nymph body fluid was found to have effused as a result of penetration of the female ovipositor into the vasiform orifice of host ...
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Larval host plant origin modifies the adult oviposition preference of the female European grapevine moth Lobesia botrana
... Hopkins host selection principle is involved is difficult to prove in holometabolous insects because the central nervous system is reorganized during the ...
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Feeding and oviposition preferences of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) on six Brassicaceae host plant species
... if host-plant adaptation isolates populations, then, over time, populations can differentiate into different ecotypes (Turrill ...in host plant preferences of DBM populations within Alberta, Saskatchewan ...
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Developmental stage-dependent response and preference for host plant quality in an insect herbivore
... in host plant quality along the life cycle of an insect herbivore, mediated by host plant responses to ...within host plant species that vary in quality (but see Petersen et ...general ...
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Host stage preference and parasitism behaviour of Aenasius bambawaleian an encyrtid parasitoid of Phenacoccus solenopsis
... that host stage influences parasitoid size and further that female fitness may be more influenced by body size than the male fitness (Charnov 1982; King 1993; Fand et ...of host that will have ...
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Host-plant preference and oviposition responses of the sorghum midge, Stenodiplosis sorghicola (Coquillett) (Dipt., Cecidomyiidae) towards wild relatives of sorghum
... the host, more sorghum midge females were attracted to the panicles of ...for oviposition, and they were also less attractive to the sorghum midge ...
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Effect of carotenoid volatiles on oviposition and feeding choice of T.ni and T.vaporariorum
... though oviposition experiments with CCD1 and CCD4 overexpression plants emitted enhanced levels of β-ionone and caryophyllene, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that other individual volatiles or ...
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Host feeding preference of Phlebotomus orientalis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in northern Ethiopia
... could be the possible reasons for the reduced detection success. Conclusions Our results demonstrated that the feeding preference of P. orientalis is primarily zoophilic, which possibly vary depending on ...
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Effect of selected baculoviruses on oviposition preference by Trichogramma chilonis (Trichogrammatidae: Hymenoptera)
... the oviposition preference of virus treated and untreated host eggs of Sitotroga cerealella by Trichogramma ...tion preference of untreated host eggs compared to virus trea- ted ...
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Avoidance of host resistance in the oviposition site preferences of rose bitterling
... ocellatus and host mussels for scenarios when parasite specialisation (tested using parasite oviposition preference) or host resistance (tested using host egg eject[r] ...
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Oviposition preference, larval feeding preference and larval food quality of Heliothis armigera : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... prefer red to ovi pos i t on hos t plants in the f lowering s t age compared to o ther phenolog i cal s tages . When ma ture hos t plan t s we re covered wi th wh i t e musl i n cloth to e l i minate phys i cal , contact ...
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Understanding West Nile virus ecology in Europe: Culex pipiens host feeding preference in a hotspot of virus emergence
... high feeding preference index is the result of intrinsic mos- quito ...ing preference index in the field strongly depends on host ecology/behaviour of this species in the ...in host ...
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Evolution of host preference in anthropophilic mosquitoes
... Another relevant complication which was not considered here relates to how vectors distribute themselves among hosts, and particularly whether they do so according to an ideal free distribution. In the current study, ...
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Effect of host kairomones and oviposition experience on the arrestment behavior of an egg parasitoid
... from host adults and oviposition experience can influence the arrestment behavior of ...perceived host residues at different hierarchical levels depending on the host gender, with a clear ...
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Evaluation of Multiple Reduced Risk Chemistries on Thrips Feeding and Oviposition in Cotton and Tomato.
... a preference for cotyledon tissue when ...their oviposition behavior and oviposit on true leaf tissue, where the concentration of insecticide is putatively ...
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Host feeding patterns and preference of Anopheles minimus (Diptera: Culicidae) in a malaria endemic area of western Thailand: baseline site description
... and host preference/feeding behavior as back- ground and basis for more detailed investigations to follow at the study ...and host preference of ...
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Determinants of host feeding success by Anopheles farauti
... after feeding on either humans or pigs was assessed from blood-fed mosquitoes held in individual oviposition ...the feeding index was 1.29. Anopheles farauti that fed on a human host laid more ...
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Determinants of host feeding success by Anopheles farauti
... after feeding on either humans or pigs was assessed from blood-fed mosquitoes held in individual oviposition ...the feeding index was 1.29. Anopheles farauti that fed on a human host laid more ...
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Development and oviposition preference of Xenotemna pallorana Robinson (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) on alfalfa and fruit tree foliage
... 3 Oviposition choice of ...observation). Oviposition preference for alfalfa most likely explains why ...observed feeding on apple or other fruit ...
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Host preference by Saperda calcarata Say (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
... Olfaction experiments. In 2003 and 2004, responses to volatiles were investi- gated in the laboratory using a still air ol- factometer (Figure 1). Randomly assigned treatment and control jars contained either a small jar ...
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