Color Vision in the Adult Female Two-spotted Spider Mite

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 1966 Nov 11

PMID 5919446

Citations 5

Authors

W D McEnroe

K Dronka

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Abstract

Responses of the summer form of the adult female two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acarina: Tetranychoidea) placed in near-ultraviolet and green light are photopositive. The independent variation of these responses requires the presence of separate receptor systems.

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