Higher productivity at the cost of increased host‐specificity when Maculinea butterfly larvae exploit ant colonies through trophallaxis rather than by predation
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Ecological Entomology
- Vol. 23 (4) , 457-464
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00153.x
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