Role of visual and olfactory cues from agricultural hedgerows in the orientation behavior of multicolored asian lady beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 973-979

  Bahlai, C A ^a   Welsman, J A ^a   Macleod, E C ^a   Schaafsma, A W ^a   Hallett, R H ^a   Sears, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphis glycines; Buckthorn; Harmonia axyridis; Preference assay; Soybean aphid

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; APHID; BEETLE; BIOASSAY; HEDGEROW; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APHID; APPLE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ODOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHAMNUS; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALUS; ODORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RHAMNUS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS GLYCINES; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GLYCINE MAX; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; LONCHOCARPUS CAPASSA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; RHAMNACEAE; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS CATHARTICA;

EID: 50949124671     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[973:ROVAOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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