An Aphid Flight Chamber: Construction and Operation
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 59 (6) , 1518-1520
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/59.6.1518
Abstract
The construction of a flight chamber to study aphid alighting behavior is described and figured. In this chamber the observer is completely out of the arena and alighting aphids are concentrated in 1 area. The behavior of 3 species of aphids, Myzus persicae (Sulzer): Breyicorvne brassicae (L.); and Aphis sp., flying and alighting in the chamber, is described and figured.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Modified Flight Chamher1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1963
- Aphis Migration and the Efficiency of the Trapping MethodAnnals of Applied Biology, 1948