Flight and oviposition behaviour of the African stem borer, Busseola fusca, on various host plant species

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-355

  Calatayud, Paul André ^a,b   Guénégo, Hervé ^c   Ahuya, Peter ^a,b   Wanjoya, Antony ^a   Le Rü, Bruno ^a,b   Silvain, Jean François ^b,d   Frérot, Brigitte ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Landing; Lepidoptera; Maize; Napier grass; Noctuidae; Oligophagous; Orientation; Poaceae; Sorghum; Stem borer

Indexed keywords

CHEMORECEPTION; CROP PEST; EGG PRODUCTION; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGE; GRASS; HOST PLANT; HOST SELECTION; MAIZE; MOTH; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; SORGHUM; STEM BORER; WIND TUNNEL;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; POACEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 56049096264     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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