PARENTAL EFFECTS ON THE BEHAVIOR AND COLORATION OF NYMPHS OF THE DESERT LOCUST SCHISTOCERCA-GREGARIA

Citation
Ms. Islam et al., PARENTAL EFFECTS ON THE BEHAVIOR AND COLORATION OF NYMPHS OF THE DESERT LOCUST SCHISTOCERCA-GREGARIA, Journal of insect physiology, 40(2), 1994, pp. 173-181
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
ISSN journal
00221910
Volume
40
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
173 - 181
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1910(1994)40:2<173:PEOTBA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The behavioural phase status of hatchling Schistocerca gregaria Forsk ($) over circle al has been quantified using logistic regression, foll owing treatments in which maternal and paternal phase, density during mating and oviposition, and nymphal rearing density were varied. All t reatments (having a crowd-reared mother, a crowd-reared father, parent s which were crowded only for the period of mating and oviposition, or being reared from birth in a crowd) had a marked gregarizing effect o n the behaviour and colour of hatchlings. Such effects have important implications for the generation of locust swarms.