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Host Searching Behavior

Host Searching Behavior is a behavioral ecological strategy employed by forest insect natural enemies, characterized by the systematic detection and location of host organisms through specific cues, distinguishing it from random movement or non-host-directed activities.

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586

Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer

Andrew M. Edwards, Richard A. Phillips, N. W. Watkins et al. · Nature · 2007 · 928 citations

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Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

Vojtêch Novotný, Yves Basset, Scott E. Miller et al. · Nature · 2002 · 660 citations

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Host‐plant selection by insects – a theory based on ‘appropriate/inappropriate landings’ by pest insects of cruciferous plants

S. Finch, Rosemary Collier · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata · 2000 · 637 citations · Full text

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Searching Behavior Patterns in Insects

W.J. Bell · Annual Review of Entomology · 1990 · 472 citations

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An Experimental Study of the Searching Behaviour of the Predatory Coccinellid Beetle Adalia decempunctata (L.)

A. F. G. Dixon · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1959 · 373 citations

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Authors

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  1. JV
    J.C. van Lenteren

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    11 publications · 601 citations

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  2. RJ
    Ronald J. Prokopy

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    10 publications · 716 citations

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  3. BD
    Bernard D. Roitberg

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    9 publications · 414 citations

    9

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  4. WJ
    W. J. Lewis

    Agricultural Research Service, United States

    7 publications · 482 citations

    7

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  5. JT
    Junji Takabayashi

    Kyoto University, Japan

    7 publications · 211 citations

    7

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Institutions

528

  1. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    16 h-index

    29 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    13 h-index

    31 publications

    2.3K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    21 publications

    1K citations

  4. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    12 h-index

    24 publications

    1.9K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    32 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    941 citations

  7. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    865 citations

  8. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    10 h-index

    27 publications

    699 citations

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  1. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

    30 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. Journal of Insect Behavior

    32 publications · 902 citations

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  3. Journal of Chemical Ecology

    24 publications · 1.2K citations

    19

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  4. Animal Behaviour

    23 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Ecological Entomology

    18 publications · 872 citations

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