Sensory ecology of feeding in the hummingbird hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 29, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 097-110

  Kelber, Almut ^a   Balkenius, Anna ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SLU   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colour preference; Colour vision; Learning; Nectar; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; MACROGLOSSUM STELLATARUM; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 35848948848     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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