SOME EVIDENCE FOR A COLOUR SENSITIVE PHASE IN THE FLIGHT PERIOD OF SCOLYTIDAE AND PLATYPODIDAE
- 1 June 1963
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
- Vol. 6 (2) , 143-148
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.1963.tb00611.x
Abstract
Evidence for a greater attractiveness to Scolytidae and Platypodidae in general of red over yellow, green, blue, white and black is presented. A larger number of individuals and species alighted on red sticky traps (a vertical surface was more attractive than one horizontal) though the individual species preference was not always clear. There were also more attacks on billets of Chlorophora excelsa and Terminalia superba when these were pointed red.Résumé: QUELQUES INDICATIONS D'UNE PHASE SENSIBLE A LA COULEUR PENDANT LA PÉRIODE DE VOL DE QUELQUES SCOLYTIDES ET PLATYPODIDESL' auteur a démontré que la couleur rouge attire plus fortement les Scolytides et les Platypodides que le jaune, le vert, le bleu, le blanc et le noir. Un plus grand nombre d'individus et d'espeGces se déposa sur des pieGges gluants rouges (une surface verticale avait un pouvoir d'attraction plus grand qu'une surface horizontale), bien que la préférence des espeGces individuelles ne fut pas nette. Plus d'attaques furent enregistrées sur le bois de Chlorophora excelsa et Terminalia superba lorsqu'il fut colorié en rouge.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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