Food stress causes differential survival of socially parasitic caterpillars of Maculinea rebeli integrated in colonies of host and non‐host Myrmica ant species
@article{Elmes2004FoodSC, title={Food stress causes differential survival of socially parasitic caterpillars of Maculinea rebeli integrated in colonies of host and non‐host Myrmica ant species}, author={G. W. Elmes and Judith C. Wardlaw and Karsten Sch{\"o}nrogge and James A Thomas and R. T. Clarke}, journal={Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata}, year={2004}, volume={110} }
Final instar larvae of Maculinea rebeli Hirschke (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) are social parasites of Myrmica Latreille (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) nests. In the populations of the southern French Alps and Spanish Pyrenees, >95% adult M. rebeli emerge from colonies of Myrmica schencki Emery, despite >60% caterpillars being adopted by other Myrmica species (non‐hosts). However, in laboratory culture caterpillars can be reared successfully by many of the non‐host species. This contradiction, which has…
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