Plant host specificity of prey buprestid beetles was used to estimate the minimum distance of hunting flights by the solitary fossorial wasp, Cerceris fumipennis Say. Plant hosts of the 5 beetle species investigated were each found at less than 200 m of the wasp nesting area. Although these results indicate neither average nor maximal hunting range, they suggest a working hypothesis that foraging in close proximity to the nesting site may be the norm.
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1 October 2013
Conservative Estimates of Hunting Distance in Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)
Christine A. Nalepa,
Whitney G. Swink,
Paul Merten,
Jason E. Moan
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Agrilus
biosurveillance
Buprestidae
emerald ash borer