Flour beetles: responses to extracts of their own pupae.
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.
D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D004463:Ecology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011679:Pupa