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This chapter is concerned with approaches and techniques used in studying those aspects of parasitoid and predator life-cycles that are relevant to the topics covered by other chapters in this book.

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The previous version of this chapter was written by Mark Jervis, Mike Copland and Jeffrey Harvey. For help with, and comments on, that version we thank Jacques van Alphen, Michael Benson, Francis Gilbert, Neil Kidd, Manfred Mackauer, Mike Majerus, John Morgan and Kevin Munn. The current version was revised by J.A. Harvey and K.S. Shameer. We thank Ian Hardy and Eric Wajnberg for comments and suggestions.

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Jervis, M.A., Copland, M.J.W., Shameer, K.S., Harvey, J.A. (2023). The Life-Cycle. In: Hardy, I.C., Wajnberg, E. (eds) Jervis's Insects as Natural Enemies: Practical Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23880-2_2

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