Site of secretion of the trail marker of the eastern tent caterpillar
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 8 (1) , 31-39
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00984003
Abstract
A new site of secretion of a chemical trail marker was found on the sternum at the tip of the last abdominal segment of the larva of the eastern tent caterpillarMalacosoma americanum. Larvae marked from this site by drawing their sterna along the substrate when they extended existing trails in search of food and again when they established recruitment trails to food-finds. Differences in the quantity or quality of the marker deposited by exploring and recruiting caterpillars may account for the greater activity of the recruitment trails.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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