Environmental Entomology (1981) 10, 10-15

S.A. Alberts, M.K. Kennedy and R.T. Cardé (1981)
Pheromone-mediated anemotactic flight and mating behavior of the sciarid fly Bradysia impatiens
Environmental Entomology 10 (1), 10-15
Abstract: Bradysia impatiens (Johannsen) females emit a sex pheromone that elicits male upwind flight in the male, evidently via a mechanism of optomotor-modulated anemotaxis. Maximal male wing fanning and upwind walking to female body extract occurs between 5 h before to one h after the initiation of scotophase on a 16:8 LD. Mated and unmated females appeared to have similar quantities of extractable pheromone. The mating sequence appears relatively stereotyped.
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Database assignments for author(s): Ring T. Cardé

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
pheromones/attractants/traps

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Bradysia impatiens