Effects of host plant, Gossypium hirsutum L., on sexual attraction of cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

…, JG Millar, KM Davis-Hernandez, BD Dueben…

Index: Landolt; Heath; Millar; Davis-Hernandez; Dueben; Ward Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1994 , vol. 20, # 11 p. 2959 - 2974

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Abstract

Abstract Unmated female or male cabbage looper moths, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), were attracted more often in a flight tunnel to a cage with moths of the opposite sex and a bouquet of cotton foliage. Increased sexual attractiveness of females with plants may be a result of stimulation of pheromone release in response to plant odor, since more males were attracted when odor of cotton foliage was passed over females than when odor of females ...