Odour-mediated nectar foraging in the silver Y moth, Autographa gamma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Behavioural and electrophysiological responses to floral volatiles

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-82

  Plepys, Dainius ^a   Ibarra, Fernando ^b   Francke, Wittko ^b   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLOWER VISITING; MOTH; NECTARIVORY; ODOR; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMALIA; ASTERACEAE; AUTOGRAPHA; AUTOGRAPHA GAMMA; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SCABIOSA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; ENCYCLIA; FABACEAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LAMIACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NEPETA; NEPETA CATARIA; NOCTUIDAE; ORCHIDACEAE; PLATANTHERA; SAPONARIA; SAPONARIA OFFICINALIS; SCABIOSA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 0036774727     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990108.x     Document Type: Article

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