Environmental components of pupariation-site selection by the stable fly (Diptera: Muscidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 665-671

  Mcpheron, Linda J ^a,b   Broce, Alberto B ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; pupariation; Stomoxys calcitrans

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 0030485352     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.3.665     Document Type: Article

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