Biology of Grasshoppers

ISBN-13: 9780471609018 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 576 str.

R. F. Chapman; Michael Chapman;Joern

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This volume presents diverse biological aspects of grasshoppers - a group of insects which includes locusts and which is of major importance in research and pest control.

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The Chemoreceptors (W. Blaney & M. Simmonds).

Food Selection (R. Chapman).

The Pattern of Feeding (S. Simpson).

Nutrition (E. Bernays & S. Simpson).

Water Regulation (E. Bernays).

Grasshopper Thermoregulation (M. Chappell & D. Whitman).

Jumping in Orthoptera (H. Bennet–Clark).

Hormonal Control of Flight Metabolism in Locusts (G. Goldsworthy).

Flight and Migration in Acridoids (R. Farrow).

Territory–Based Mating Systems in Desert Grasshoppers: Effects of Host Plant Distribution and Variation (M. Greenfield & T. Shelly).

Pheromones and Phase Transformation in Locusts (W. Loher).

Grasshopper Chemical Communication (D. Whitman).

The Endocrine Basis of Locust Phase Polymorphism (J. Dale & S. Tobe).

Population Dynamics and Regulation in Grasshoppers (A. Joern & S. Gaines).

Pathogenic Diseases of Grasshoppers (D. Streett & M. McGuire).

Color Pattern Polymorphism (J. Dearn).

Subject Index.

Species Index.

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About the editors R. F. CHAPMAN is a researcher and professor at the Division of Neurobiology of the Arizona Research Laboratories at the University of Arizona in Tucson. ANTHONY JOERN is a professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

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