Ebook: Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding
- Tags: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Animal Physiology, Plant Pathology
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The only book to deal comprehensively with insect feeding was published by C. T. Brues in 1946. His Insect Dietary was an account of insect feeding habits. Since that time there has been a revolution in biology, and almost all aspects of our understanding of insect feeding have expanded to an extent and into areas that would have been unthinkable in Brues' day. Yet, our book does not replace Insect Dietary but, instead, complements it, because our aim is to bring together information on the mechanisms by which food quality and quantity are regulated. We deliberately focus attention on the feeding process; to include food-finding would have required a much larger book and would have moved the focus away from more proximate mechanisms. This book is dedicated to the late Vincent G. Dethier. As a pioneer in studying the physiological basis of animal behavior, he focused on regulation of feeding in flies and caterpillars. His work on the blowfly, together with that by his many students and co-workers, still provides the most completely described mechanism of insect feeding. The citation of his work in almost every chapter in this book illustrates the importance of his findings and ideas to our current understanding of regulation of insect feeding. The authors in this book provide many innovative and stimulating ideas typifying Dethier's approach to the study of feeding be havior.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mechanics of Food Handling by Chewing Insects....Pages 3-31
Mechanics of Food Handling by Fluid-Feeding Insects....Pages 32-73
Insect Saliva: Function, Biochemistry, and Physiology....Pages 74-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Chemosensory Regulation of Feeding....Pages 101-136
Regulation of a Meal: Chewing Insects....Pages 137-156
Regulation of a Meal: Blood Feeders....Pages 157-189
Regulation of Phloem Sap Feeding by Aphids....Pages 190-209
Regulation of a Carbohydrate Meal in the Adult Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera....Pages 210-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
The Mechanisms of Nutritional Homeostasis....Pages 251-278
Effects of Experience on Feeding....Pages 279-306
Ontogenic Changes in Feeding Behavior....Pages 307-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Stimulation of Feeding: Insect Control Agents....Pages 345-363
Use of Feeding Inhibitors in Insect Control....Pages 364-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-398
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mechanics of Food Handling by Chewing Insects....Pages 3-31
Mechanics of Food Handling by Fluid-Feeding Insects....Pages 32-73
Insect Saliva: Function, Biochemistry, and Physiology....Pages 74-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Chemosensory Regulation of Feeding....Pages 101-136
Regulation of a Meal: Chewing Insects....Pages 137-156
Regulation of a Meal: Blood Feeders....Pages 157-189
Regulation of Phloem Sap Feeding by Aphids....Pages 190-209
Regulation of a Carbohydrate Meal in the Adult Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera....Pages 210-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
The Mechanisms of Nutritional Homeostasis....Pages 251-278
Effects of Experience on Feeding....Pages 279-306
Ontogenic Changes in Feeding Behavior....Pages 307-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Stimulation of Feeding: Insect Control Agents....Pages 345-363
Use of Feeding Inhibitors in Insect Control....Pages 364-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-398
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