Flight of Heliothis virescens males in the field in response to sex pheromone

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 277-285

  Vickers, Neil J ^a,b   Baker, Thomas C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight behaviour field behaviour; Heliothis virescens; Pheromone plume; Sex pheromone; Windspeed

Indexed keywords

HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS;

EID: 0030690250     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1997.tb01169.x     Document Type: Article

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