Role of vision throughout the flight initiation sequence of the Colorado potato beetle

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 420-427

  Boiteau, Gilles ^a  

^a FREDERICTON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; VISION;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA;

EID: 27744595121     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n04-111     Document Type: Article

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