Real-time measurement of pheromone release from individual female moths and synthetic dispensers in a wind tunnel by recording of single receptor-neurone responses

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 240-250

  Valeur, Peter G ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agrotis segetum; Behaviour; Electrophysiology; Flight; Pheromone; Pulsed release

Indexed keywords

AGROTIS SEGETUM;

EID: 0032873778     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1999.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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