Electronic tags for the tracking of insects in flight: Effect of weight on flight performance of adult Colorado potato beetles

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-193

  Boiteau, Gilles ^a   Colpitts, Bruce ^b  

^a FREDERICTON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colorado potato beetle; Electronic tags; Flight; Harmonic radar; Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say); Weight

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOTELEMETRY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; TAGGING;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPTINOTARSA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0034832033     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2001.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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