Listening in pheromone plumes: Disruption of olfactory-guided mate attraction in a moth by a bat-like ultrasound

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Svensson, Glenn P ^b   Löfstedt, Christer ^b   Skals, Niels ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bat moth interaction; Plodia interpunctella; Pyralidae; Sex pheromone; Ultrasonic hearing

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA; PYRALIDAE;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MOTH; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MOTHS; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 36849084105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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