Generalist vs. Specialist Oviposition Behaviour in Papilio Machaon (Lepidoptera) and Functional Aspects on the Hierarchy of Oviposition Preferences
- 1 March 1981
- Vol. 36 (2) , 163-170
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3544441
Abstract
Oviposition choice experiments were performed with females from a southern Swedish population of Papilio machaon L. The results show that the females had a hier...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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