Experience-based mediation of feeding and oviposition behaviors in the cotton bollworm: Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

Experience is well known to affect sensory-guided behaviors in many herbivorous insects. Here, we investigated the effects of natural feeding experiences of Helicoverpa armigera larvae on subsequent preferences of larval approaching and feeding, as well as the effect of host-contacting experiences o...

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Main Authors: Pu Hu, Hui-Ling Li, Hong-Fei Zhang, Qian-Wen Luo, Xian-Ru Guo, Gao-Ping Wang, Wei-Zheng Li, Guohui Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5752029?pdf=render