Cereal aphid responses to sex pheromones and host-plant odours in the laboratory

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 304-308

  Lilley, Richard ^a,b   Hardie, Jim ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HORTICULTURE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphid; Aphididae; behaviour; gynopara; Homoptera; male; olfactometer; ovipara; plant odours; sex pheromone; Sitobion avenae; Sitobion fragariae

Indexed keywords

CEREAL APHID; HOST ODOUR; NEPETALACTONE; OLFACTOMETER; SEX PHEROMONE;

APHIDIDAE; HOMOPTERA; SITOBION AVENAE; SITOBION FRAGARIAE;

EID: 0030301549     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1996.tb00869.x     Document Type: Article

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