Identification of factors influencing flight performance of field-collected and laboratory-reared, overwintered, and nonoverwintered cactus moths fed with field-collected host plants

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1291-1299

  Sarvary, Mark A ^a   Hight, Stephen D ^b   Carpenter, James E ^c   Bloem, Stephanie ^d   Bloem, Kenneth A ^d   Dorn, Silvia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cactoblastis cactorum; Dispersal; Flight; Overwintering; Seasonally

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CACTUS; DISPERSAL; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HOST PLANT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOTH; OVERWINTERING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REARING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STERILE RELEASE METHOD;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; MOTH; OPUNTIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTHS; OPUNTIA; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; CACTOBLASTIS CACTORUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA CACTI; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 56049103310     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[1291:IOFIFP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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