Host plant influences on sex pheromone behavior of phytophagous insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 42, Issue , 1997, Pages 371-391

  Landolt, Peter J ^a   Phillips, Thomas W ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; host finding; kairomone; mating; pheromone

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030929828     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.371     Document Type: Review

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