The Flight Capacity of Dispersing Milkweed Beetles, Tetraopes tetraopthalmus1
- 15 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 74 (4) , 385-386
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/74.4.385
Abstract
The flight capacity of dispersing milkweed beetles, Tetraopes tetraopthalmus (Forster) (Cerambycidae), was measured by using a still-air tethering technique and compared with the flight capacity of beetles randomly collected from source populations (milkweed patches). The mean flight duration of the dispersing group was 80 to 325% greater than that for any source population. These data attest to the validity of the tethered flight procedure.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: