The role of pre- and post-imaginal experience host-finding and oviposition behaviour of the cabbage moth

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-89

  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 finding behaviour; Mamestra brassicae; Moths; Oviposition; Post imaginal experience; Pre imaginal experience; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

HOST LOCATION; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM;

CHRYSANTHEMUM; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE;

EID: 0033015688     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.1999.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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