Yucca moth oviposition and pollination behaviour is affected by past flower visitors: Evidence for a host-marking pheromone

Oecologia

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 593-599

  Huth, Chad J ^a   Pellmyr, Olle ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Host selection; Host marking pheromone; Oviposition; Prodoxidae; Tegeticula

Indexed keywords

MOTH; OVIPOSITION; PHEROMONE; POLLINATION;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0033026055     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050824     Document Type: Article

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