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Dispersal Responses of Female Flour Beetles, Tribolium Confusum, to Presence of Larvae
Author(s) -
Naylor Alfred F.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1936339
Subject(s) - larva , biological dispersal , biology , ecology , zoology , population , demography , sociology
By offering female Tribolium confusum a choice of flour occupied or not occupied by larvae of the species, an avoidance response was demonstrated. The response was intensified by increasing larval density in occupied flour. Larvae showed a sporadic density—dependent tendency to leave flour.
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