Benefits and Mechanisms of Group Living in the Nomadic Social Forager Malacosoma disstria

The present work has two main objectives; to determine the benefits and the mechanisms of group-living in M. disstria caterpillars. A combination of laboratory and field experiments showed that groups of M. disstria caterpillars can thermoregulate, that body temperatures achieved while basking in a...

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Main Author: McClure, Melanie
Format: Others
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/36125/1/McClure_PhD_S2012.pdf
McClure, Melanie <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/McClure=3AMelanie=3A=3A.html> (2011) Benefits and Mechanisms of Group Living in the Nomadic Social Forager Malacosoma disstria. PhD thesis, Concordia University.