ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING BY NEMERITIS CANESCENS (HYMENOPTERA: ICHNEUMONIDAE)
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 103 (8) , 1137-1141
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1031137-8
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.Keywords
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