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The Guidance of Flying Insects. V. Mosquito Attraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. E. Kellogg
Affiliation:
British Columbia Research Council, Vancouver 8, B.C.
R. H. Wright
Affiliation:
British Columbia Research Council, Vancouver 8, B.C.

Extract

It has been shown that Drosophila melanogaster fly to the source of an attractive scent by making a series of highly stereotyped responses to olfactory and visual stimuli (Kellogg, Frizel, and Wright, 1962). The comparable processes by which Aedes aegypti are guided to a warm-blooded host have now been studied and are the subject of this paper.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1962

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