Innate colour preferences and flexible colour learning in the pipevine swallowtail

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1043-1052

  Weiss, Martha R ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOUR PREFERENCE; FLOWER COLOUR; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY;

BATTUS PHILENOR; LANTANA CAMARA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONIDAE; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 0031128707     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0357     Document Type: Article

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