Spontaneous and learned preferences for visual flower features in a diurnal hawkmoth

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 235-245

  Kelber, Almut ^a   Pfaff, Michael ^a  

^a Lehrstuhl für Biokybernetik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; HAWKMOTH; LEARNING BEHAVIOUR;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030732342     PISSN: 07929978     EISSN: 22238980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07929978.1997.10676687     Document Type: Article

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