Contact chemoreception related to host selection and oviposition behaviour in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-19

  Baur, Robert ^a   Haribal, Meena ^b   Renwick, J Alan A ^b   Städler, Erich ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing Viticulture and Horticulture   (Switzerland)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Asclepiadaceae; Asclepias curassavica; Contact chemoreception; Danaus plexippus; Flavonoids; Host selection; Milkweed; Monarch butterfly; Nymphalidae; Oviposition behaviour; Sensory physiology

Indexed keywords

CHEMORECPETION; HOST SELECTION; MONARCH BUTTERFLY; OVIPOSITION;

ASCLEPIAS CURACCAVICA; ASCLEPIAS CURASSAVICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0031887234     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1998.2310007.x     Document Type: Article

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