Synergy between visual and olfactory cues in nectar feeding by naïve hawkmoths, Manduca sexta

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 685-695

  Raguso, Robert A ^a   Willis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NECTARIVORY; OLFACTORY CUE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; VISUAL CUE;

LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MANDUCA SEXTA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 0036433788     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.4010     Document Type: Article

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