The Olfactory Responses of Flies in a New Type of Insect Olfactometer II: Responses of the Housefly to Ammonia, Carbon Dioxide and Ethyl Alcohol*
- 31 January 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 32 (1) , 24-29
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/32.1.24
Abstract
It is an interesting circumstance that although there is world wide interest in the housefly, Musca domestica L., and although a wealth of observation and experiment exists proving that response to volatile substances plays an important part in the fly's feeding and oviposition habits, almost no quantitative data on its chemotropic reactions have been published. Most of the experiments have consisted in counting the number of flies attracted to traps baited with various substances often in process of fermentation or putrefaction (Morrill 1914; Richardson 1916, 1917; Crumb & Lyon 1917, 1921; Laake et al. 1931).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Olfactory Responses of Flies in a New Type of Insect Olfactometer1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1934