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AFTER a preliminary period of quiescence newly moulted alate alienicolae of Aphis fabae Scop. take flight, in suitable physical conditions, whatever the quality of the host they are on. When they alight on a host plant after a sufficient flight they do not take off again immediately1 as they do before sufficient flight2, and they may settle down and bear young. Moericke2 thought that this indicated two phases in the life of alate aphids, the Zugphase and Befallsphase, and Müller and Unger3 attributed the transition from one to the other to exhaustion. The following experiments show that the change can be brought about by flight itself, and that it is not necessarily permanent.
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JOHNSON, B. Effect of Flight on Behaviour of Aphis fabae Scop.. Nature 173, 831–832 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173831c0
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