Evidence for obligate migratory flight behavior in young European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) females

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1280-1290

  Dorhout, David L ^a,b   Sappington, Thomas W ^a   Rice, Marlin E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Flight behavior; Flight mill; Migration; Ostrinia nubilalis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; EMERGENCE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOTH; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; MOTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTHS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CRAMBIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS;

EID: 56049113743     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[1280:EFOMFB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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