Bulletin of Entomological Research (1967) 57, 259-270

K.U. Clarke (1967)
The growth responses of Locusta migratoria (R. and F.) to fluctuating temperature regimes
Bulletin of Entomological Research 57 (2), 259-270
Abstract: Fourth and 5th-instar hoppers and adults of Locusta migratoria migratorioides were exposed to three fluctuating temperature regimes in the laboratory and weighed daily. The regimes were 30±0.25, 30±10 and 30±15°C, the change from one extreme to the other in the last two being made every two hours. Temperatures were accurately determined, and the three thermorhythms were analysed. Rates of growth and survival of the hoppers and adults, both fed and starved, under the different temperature regimes are reported.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied from Acridological Abstracts with permission by NRI, Univ. of Greenwich at Medway.)
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Locusta migratoria