Appetitive flight patterns of male Agrotis segetum moths over landscape scales

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-149

  Reynolds, A M ^a   Reynolds, D R ^b   Smith, A D ^a   Svensson, G P ^c   Lofstedt C ^c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agrotis segetum; Casting; L vy flights; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Pheromone plumes

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; MOTH; PHEROMONE; PLUME;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; ARTICLE; FLYING; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; ORIENTATION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SMELL;

AGROTIS SEGETUM; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 33846798145     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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