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Science 9 October 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3954, pp. 178 - 180
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3954.178
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Flour Beetles: Responses to Extracts of Their Own Pupae

Michael F. Ryan 1, Thomas Park 1, and David B. Mertz 2

1 Hull Biological Laboratories, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago 60680

Two species of flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and Tribolium castaneum, respond to neutral pith disks impregnated with aqueous extracts of their pupae in such a way that the adults and larvae tend to select the extract of the other species. These findings have implications for the population ecology of Tribolium.


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