Abstract
Analysis assumes that hyperparasitoids, which search aphid colonies for aphids that have been infected by parasitoids, decide to leave a colony when they have searched some fixed number of aphids consecutively without finding an infected one. The optimal number of aphids to infect in a colony is sometimes much less than the total number of aphids available. The optimal number of aphids to infect within a colony decreases with a decrease in the colony size, with an increase in the average number of hyperparasitoid visits, and with a decrease in travel time between aphid colonies. -from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 120-138 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | American Naturalist |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 1993 |