Determination and consideration of flight potential in a laboratory population of true armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-9

  Luo, Lizhi ^a,b   Johnson, S J ^a   Hammond, A M ^a   Lopez, J D ^c   Geaghan, J P ^a   Beerwinkle, K R ^c   Westbrook, J K ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Flight potential; Migration; Pseudaletia unipuncta; Sex; Tethered flight

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

LEPIDOPTERA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE; PSEUDALETIA UNIPUNCTA;

EID: 0036488282     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.1.1     Document Type: Article

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