Flour Beetles: Responses to Extracts of Their Own Pupae
- 9 October 1970
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 170 (3954) , 178-180
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.170.3954.178
Abstract
Two species of flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and Tribolium castaneum, respond to neutral pith disks impregnated with aqueous extracts of their pupae in such a way that the adults and larvae tend to select the extract of the other species. These findings have implications for the population ecology of Tribolium.Keywords
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