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Laboratory and field studies indicate that plant volatiles influence the orientation behaviour of walking and flying aphids prior to host contact (Pickett et al., 1992). The black bean aphid, Aphis fabae Scop., has been shown to be ‘repelled’ by a number of non-host volatiles including methyl salicylate, 1-heptanonitrile and n-butyl isothiocyanate (Hardie et al., 1994; Isaacs, 1994). The present study investigates the effect of these compounds on the behaviour of A. fabae immediately after initial contact with a host plant.
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Storer, J.R., Powell, G., Hardie, J. (1996). Settling responses of aphids in air permeated with non-host plant volatiles. In: Städler, E., Rowell-Rahier, M., Bauer, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships. Series Entomologica, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1720-0_17
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