Temperature-Dependent Parental Investment in the Giant Waterbug Belostoma flumineum (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 93 (2) , 340-342
- https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0340:tdpiit]2.0.co;2
Abstract
We examined the effects of ambient temperature on the brooding behavior of male waterbugs, Belostoma flumineum Say. Male waterbugs are more likely toKeywords
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