THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE AND MOON PHASE ON THE ACTIVITY OF NOCTUID MOTHS
- 1 November 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 104 (11) , 1767-1770
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1041767-11
Abstract
On the basis of data obtained during a light-trapping survey in western North America, noctuid moth activity appears to be influenced by nightly temperatures but not by lunar periodicity.Keywords
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