Flying beetles respond as moths predict: Optomotor anemotaxis to pheromone plumes at different heights

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 549-557

  Fadamiro, Henry Y ^a,b   Wyatt, Tristram D ^a   Birch, Martin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight orientation; Larger grain borer; Optomotor anemotaxis; Pheromone; Prostephanus truncatus; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

BOSTRICHIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PROSTEPHANUS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0031669006     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022367430354     Document Type: Article

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