Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour

ISBN-13: 9783642866685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str.

L. B. Browne

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This volume has come about as a direct result of a Symposium entitled "Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour" which was an important con tribution to the 14 International Congress of Entomology held in Canberra, Australia, in August 1972 under the joint sponsorship of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Entomological Society. It is not, however, strictly Symposium proceedings. I have included, in this volume contributions from several workers who had to withdraw from the Symposium at a fairly late stage. Furthermore, quite intentionally, a number of the contributions bear only a general relationship to the papers given at the Congress. To permit this; the deadline for contribu tions was set at some six months after the Symposium. I imposed no restrictions on the form of the contributions. I did, however, indicate that speculative reviews highlighting the author's own recent research or that of his immediate colleagues would be particularly acceptable, and a number of the contributors have taken the opportunity to write this kind of paper. Several contributors, notably those whose task it was to give more general papers in the Symposium itself, have written reviews of somewhat greater scope."

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Changes of Responsiveness in the Patterning of Behavioural Sequences.- Sequential Analysis and Regulation of Insect Reproductive Behaviour.- Sensory Input and the Inconstant Fly.- Control of Feeding and Drinking in Diapausing Insects.- The Regulation of Food Intake by Acridids.- Neural Mechanisms of Response Modification in Insects.- Boredom and Attention in a Cell in the Locust Visual System.- The Antennae of Insects as Air-Current Sense Organs and their Relationship to the Control of Flight.- Rhythmic Activities and the Insect Nervous System.- An Analysis of Direction Finding in Male Mosquitoes.- The Development of the Flight Pattern in Locusts.- Insect Flight as a System for the Study of the Development of Neuronal Connections.- Design and Function in the Insect Brain.- Learning and Memory in the Honeybee.- Periodicity in the Activity and Learning Performance of the Honeybee.- Massed Training and Latent Habituation of the Deimatic Response in the Mantid, Stagmatoptera Biocellata.- Chemical Influence on Feeding Behavior of Leptinotarsa Beetles.- The Role of the Hydrocarbon ?-Farnesene in the Behaviour of Codling Moth Larvae and Adults.- Neurosecretory and Corpus Allatum Controlled Effects on Male Sexual Behaviour in Acridids.- The Role of Hormones in the Reproductive behavior of Female Wild Silkmoths.- Hormones and Insect behavior.- Migratory Behaviour of the Female of the Common Cockchafer Melolontha Melolontha L. and its Neuroendocrine Regulation.- A Comparison of the Migratory Strategies of Two Milkweed Bugs, Oncopeltus Fasciatus and Lygaeus Kalmii.- The Hormonal Control of Flight in the Milkweed Bug, Oncopeltus Fasciatus.- The Experimental Analysis of Migration and Life-History Strategies in Insects.- Index to Authors.- Index to Insecta and other Animals.