Both female field crickets and the larviparous parasitoid flies Ormia ochracea rely on acoustic cues to detect and find singing male crickets. |
Predation of a prey by a predator usually takes much more time than the parasitization of a host by a parasitoid. |
We used the braconid Asobara tabida, a parasitoid of Drosophila larvae, as our model species. |
These volatiles can attract the natural enemies of these herbivores, for example, parasitoid wasps. |
However, this parasitoid was completely absent from all sampled gall beetle populations. |
In spite of generally high hyperparasitism, no detrimental effect on the control efficiency of either primary parasitoid was noticed. |