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IT has recently been demonstrated1 that Trichogramma evanescens and certain other parasitoids are able to distinguish between healthy hosts and those already parasitised. Hearing cannot enter; sight and touch have been ruled out; and it appears that the sense used is that of smell.
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Salt, G., Proc. Roy. Soc., B, 114, 455; 1934.
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SALT, G., LAING, J. Discriminative Ability of a Parasitoid. Nature 135, 792 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135792b0
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