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caterpillar

Known as: caterpillars 
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2020
2020
Spodoptera frugiperda Caterpillars Suppress Herbivore-Induced Volatile Emissions in Maize
The vast spectrum of inducible plant defenses can have direct negative effects on herbivores, or indirect effects, for instance… 
2016
2016
Lessons from the Far End: Caterpillar FRASS-Induced Defenses in Maize, Rice, Cabbage, and Tomato
Plant defenses to insect herbivores have been studied in response to several insect behaviors on plants such as feeding, crawling… 
2015
2015
Body size affects the evolution of eyespots in caterpillars
Significance Eyespots are a widespread form of antipredator defense that have long captured the imagination of evolutionary… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Artificial light at night causes diapause inhibition and sex-specific life history changes in a moth
Rapidly increasing levels of light pollution subject nocturnal organisms to major alterations of their habitat, the ecological… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to Caterpillar-Induced Volatiles from Cotton
ABSTRACT Microplitis mediator Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an important larval endoparasitoid of various lepidopteran… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Priming by airborne signals boosts direct and indirect resistance in maize.
Plants counteract attack by herbivorous insects using a variety of inducible defence mechanisms. The production of toxic proteins… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Experimental evidence that plants under caterpillar attack may benefit from attracting parasitoids
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles have been suggested to function as indirect defence signals that attract natural enemies of… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Caterpillar abundance in the territory affects the breeding performance of great tit Parus major minor
Abstract The effects of caterpillar food supply on the breeding performance of a population of the Japanese great tit Parus major… 
1998
1998
Is the small clutch size of a Corsican blue tit population optimal?
Abstract In an attempt to test predictions of the optimisation hypothesis of life history traits in birds, we estimated fitness… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
A comparison of three sampling techniques to estimate the population size of caterpillars in trees
  • H. Zandt
  • Oecologia
  • 1994
  • Corpus ID: 11616526
Three sampling techniques commonly used to estimate the population size of caterpillars and sawfly larvae in trees (branch… 
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