Field and laboratory evidence for a volatile pheromone produced by parous females of the Scottish biting midge, Culicoides impunctatus

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 251-257

  BLACKWELL, A ^a   DYER, C ^a   LUNTZ, A J MORDUE ^a   WADHAMS, L J ^a   MORDUE, W ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

behaviour; Ceratopogonidae; Culicoides impunctatus; electroantennogram; pheromone; Scotland

Indexed keywords

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS;

EID: 0028191456     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1994.tb01049.x     Document Type: Article

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