Digestion of maize and sunflower pollen by the spotted maize beetle Astylus atromaculatus (Melyridae)

The relationship between beetles and flowers is often mutually beneficial. Flowers provide not only edible rewards and favourable micro-environments, but may also be sites for mating and egg-laying activities. Even though beetles consume various parts of flowers, including pollen, and can sometimes...

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Main Author: Human, Hannelie
Other Authors: Prof S W Nicolson
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25762
Human H 2002, Digestion of maize and sunflower pollen by the spotted maize beetle Astylus atromaculatus (Melyridae), MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25762 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06232005-160054/