Pheromone-based aggregation behaviour of the firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae)

Chemoecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-26

  Tremblay, Michelle N ^a,b   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Arrestment; Ctenolepisma longicaudata; Frass; Lepisma saccharina; Lepismatidae; Pheromone; Scales; Thermobia domestica; Thysanura

Indexed keywords

CTENOLEPISMA LONGICAUDATA; HEXAPODA; LEPISMA SACCHARINA; LEPISMATIDAE; THERMOBIA DOMESTICA; THYSANURA;

EID: 0037242814     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000490300002     Document Type: Article

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