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Keywords:

  • behavior
  • host
  • Notes: [Papers of the Fifth Meeting of the working group on insect-plant relations, 26-27 October 1995, Montpelier, France.] Phenacoccus manihoti causes serious damage to Manihot esculenta; video camera observations have revealed details of host selection behavior.