Free flight capacity determination in a sustained flight tunnel: Effects of age and sexual state on the flight duration of Prostephanus truncatus

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-36

  Fadamiro, Henry Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bostrichidae; Coleoptera; flight duration; larger grain borer; optomotor anemotaxis; pheromone; Prostephanus truncatus; stored product insect; wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

PROSTEPHANUS TRUNCATUS; BOSTRICHIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

AGE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR; FLIGHT DURATION; LARGER GRAIN BORER; SEXUAL STATE;

EID: 0030619778     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1997.tb01137.x     Document Type: Article

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