Insect Flight: Dispersal and Migration

✍ Scribed by W. Danthanarayana (auth.), Professor Dr. Wijesiri Danthanarayana (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: Proceedings in Life Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introductory Chapter....Pages 1-10
Evolution and Genetics of Insect Migration....Pages 11-26
The Oogenesis-Flight Syndrome Revisited....Pages 27-48
The Endocrine Control of Flight Metabolism in Locusts....Pages 49-59
Sounds of Insects in Flight....Pages 60-70
Orientation at Night by High-Flying Insects....Pages 71-87
Lunar Periodicity of Insect Flight and Migration....Pages 88-119
Response of Some Night-Flying Insects to Polarized Light....Pages 120-127
Migration in the African Armyworm Spodoptera exempta : Genetic Determination of Migratory Capacity and a New Synthesis....Pages 128-144
Dispersal in Aphids, A Problem in Resource Allocation....Pages 145-151
Direction of Insect Migrations in Relation to the Wind....Pages 152-171
Flight Strategies of Migrating Monarch Butterflies ( Danaus plexippus L.) in Southern Ontario....Pages 172-184
Interactions Between Synoptic Scale and Boundary-Layer Meteorology on Micro-Insect Migration....Pages 185-195
Derelicts of Dispersal: Arthropod Fallout on Pacific Northwest Volcanoes....Pages 196-203
Ecological Studies Indicating the Migration of Heliothis zea, Spodoptera frugiperda , and Heliothis virescens from Northeastern Mexico and Texas....Pages 204-220
Radar Observations and Collections of Insects in the Gulf of Mexico....Pages 221-234
Modeling of Agricultural Pest Displacement....Pages 235-241
Dispersal of Insects of Public Health Importance....Pages 242-252
Night-Vision Equipment, Reproductive Biology, and Nocturnal Behavior: Importance to Studies of Insect Flight, Dispersal, and Migration....Pages 253-264
The Four Kinds of Migration....Pages 265-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-289

✦ Subjects

Ecology; Zoology