Parasitoids reduce growth rate in oak-feeding caterpillars
Freerk Molleman, Ahmet Tambay, Soumen Mallick, Stéphanie Llopis, Andréas Prinzing, Urszula Walczak
The paper measures the growth rate of parasitised and non-parasitised caterpillars feeding on oak trees and finds parasitoids reduce growth rate on average across six Lepidoptera species.
Diversity · Sep 9, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology