Effects of larval diets on flight capacity and flight fuel in adults of the common cutworm, Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 133-138

  Sakamoto, Rie ^a,b   Murata, Mika ^a,c   Tojo, Sumio ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Odawara Research Center   (Japan)

^c KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flight capacity; Flight fuel; Food plant; Migration; Unsaturated fatty acid

Indexed keywords

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; GLYCINE MAX; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA LITURA;

EID: 1942472624     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2004.133     Document Type: Article

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