High mountain ecosystems are a challenge for the survival of animal and plant species, which have to evolve specific adaptations to cope with the prevailing extreme conditions. The strategies to survive may reach from...
Parasitoids have long proven to be model organisms in studying resourcerelated constraints on immature development. Here we examine the relationship between host cocoon (= pupal) size in the gregarious endoparasitoi...
The early part of the post-eclosion, pre-mating period were examined under field conditions for Ostrinia nubilalis. Post-eclosion behavior of 25 and 21 females during the first and second flight periods were observed ...