Orientation responses of the grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, to visual, olfactory and wind stimuli and their combinations

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 539-549

  Szentesi, Árpád ^a,b   Hopkins, Theodore L ^a   Collins, Robert D ^a,c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anemolaxis; grasshopper; host finding; Melanoplus sanguinipes; olfaction; orientation; visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ACRIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOPLUS SANGUINIPES; ORTHOPTERA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHASEOLUS LUNATUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANEMOTAXIS; GRASSHOPPER; HOST FINDING; OLFACTION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOUR; VISUAL STIMULI;

EID: 0029660616     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00970.x     Document Type: Article

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