Orientation and feeding responses of the pollen beetle, Meligethes aeneus, to candytuft, Iberis amara

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 913-925

  Bartlet, Elspeth ^a   Blight, Margaret M ^a   Pickett, John A ^a   Smart, Lesley E ^a   Turner, Grenville ^a   Woodcock, Christine M ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; Brassicaceae; Candytuft; Coleoptera; Feeding; Floral volatiles; GC EAG; Host plant selection; Iberis amara; Meligethes aeneus; Nitidulidae; Oilseed rape; Orientation; Pollen beetle

Indexed keywords

4,8 DIMETHYL 1,3,7 NONATRIENE; ALPHA CEDRENE; HEXANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

BEETLE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST SELECTION; OVIPOSITION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BRASSICACEAE; CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEEDING; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOWER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IBERIS AMARA; MALE; MELIGETHES AENEUS; NONHUMAN; STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BRASSICACEAE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; HEXANOLS; OILS, VOLATILE; SEASONS; VOLATILIZATION;

AMARA; ANIMALIA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; BRASSICACEAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IBERIS AMARA; MELIGETHES; MELIGETHES AENEUS; NITIDULIDAE;

EID: 3442878956     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000028458.66738.e1     Document Type: Article

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