Flying Beetles Respond as Moths Predict: Optomotor Anemotaxis to Pheromone Plumes at Different Heights

@article{Fadamiro1998FlyingBR,
  title={Flying Beetles Respond as Moths Predict: Optomotor Anemotaxis to Pheromone Plumes at Different Heights},
  author={Henry Y. Fadamiro and Tristram D. Wyatt and Martin C. Birch},
  journal={Journal of Insect Behavior},
  year={1998},
  volume={11},
  pages={549-557}
}
The current level of understanding of orientation mechanisms used by flying insects responding to pheromone sources, based almost entirely on studies of moths and flies, allows clear predictions to be made of how other, hitherto little-studied insect taxa, such as beetles (Coleoptera), should behave if the same mechanisms are used. Results are presented of the first test of such set of predictions, the effect of flight height on ground speed, on a beetle, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn… 
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