Effect of Physiological Condition of the Host Plant on the Ovipositional Choice of the Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 193-204
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4630
Abstract
(1) Butterflies sometimes prefer to oviposit on species of food plants which are unsuitable for larval growth. However, within a food plant species, cabbage whi...This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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