Role of visual cues and interaction with host odour during the host-finding behaviour of the cabbage moth

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-65

  Rojas, Julio C ^a,b   Wyatt, Tristram D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Host choice; Host finding behaviour; Interaction; Lepidoptera; Mamestra brassicae; Noctuidae; Odour; Visual cues; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

HOST LOCATION; OLFACTORY CUE; VISUAL CUE;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0032860760     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00466.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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