Different bioassays for investigating orientation responses of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, show additive effects of host plant volatiles and a synthetic male-produced aggregation pheromone

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-175

  Tinzaara, William ^a,b   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Van Huis, Arnold ^a   Van Loon, Joop J A ^a   Gold, Clifford S ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Banana weevil; Bioassay; Coleoptera; Cosmopolites sordidus; Curculionidae; Kairomone; Locomotion compensator; Male produced aggregation pheromone; Olfactometer

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHEROMONE; BEETLE; BIOASSAY; KAIROMONE; OLFACTORY CUE; ORIENTATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; COSMOPOLITES SORDIDUS; CURCULIONIDAE;

EID: 2342484452     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2003.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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