Inventory of Lepidoptera Larvae and their Parasitoids in a Tropical Dry Forest (Costa Rica)

小行星9400829 该项目是一个正在进行的生物多样性清单的所有种类的毛虫，它们的寄主植物的关系，和它们的物种的寄生虫在thae热带干燥森林的瓜纳卡斯特保护区在西北部哥斯达黎加。 调查结果可为生态学、系统学、行为生理学和进化学等基础研究提供参考，并可为生物多样性勘探、教育、生态旅游和害虫管理提供应用。 总体目标是建立这一生物系统，作为科学和哥斯达黎加社会对复杂热带荒地的非破坏性可持续利用的一个组成部分。

9400829 Janzen This project is an ongoing biodiversity inventory of all species of caterpillars, their host plant relationships, and their species of parasitoids in thae tropical dry forest of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica. The inventory pesults are designed to make caterpillars and their trophic relationships with food plants and parasitoids available to basic studies in ecology, systematics, behavior physiology and evolution, and to applied users in biodiversity prospecting, education, ecotourism and pest management. The overall goal is to establish this biological system as an integral part of the non-destructive sustainable use of a complex tropical wildland by science and by Costa Rican society.