An Example of Parasitoid Foraging: Torymus Capite (huber; Hymemoptera: Torymidae [chalcidoidea]) Attacking the Goldenrod Gall-midge Asteromyia Carbonifera (o. S.; Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
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Van Alphen and Vet (1986) refer to the work of Arthur E. Weis (1983) on a torymid wasp that attacks a gall midge on goldenrod. This system seems to be quite well-studied, particularly, but not exclusively, by Weis. Van Alphen and Vet point out that the parasitoids tend to attack about the same proportion of hosts in patches (galls) with varying numbers of hosts. This has implications for the foraging strategy that the parasitoids use.
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