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ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING BY NEMERITIS CANESCENS (HYMENOPTERA: ICHNEUMONIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. P. Arthur
A. P. Arthur
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Belleville, Ontario
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Abstract

Females of Nemeritis canescens (Grav.) were conditioned to associate the odour of geraniol with the presence of hosts. Females conditioned for 10 days retained the conditioned response for 6 days. Associative learning in N. canescens, an oligophagous parasite, is less strong than in Itoplectis conquisitor (Say), a polyphagous parasite. This finding may reveal a general difference between oligophagous and polyphagous parasites.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 8 , August 1971 , pp. 1137 - 1141
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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