Grasshoppers and Locusts: Behaviour, ecology, biogeography, population dynamics |
Contents
DAILY BEHAVIOUR | 45 |
FOOD AND FEEDING BEHAVIOUR | 82 |
FLIGHT | 123 |
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Acrididae Acridoidea acridoids activity Africa air temperature basking behaviour Calliptamus italicus Camnula Chorthippus Chorthippus albomarginatus Chorthippus parallelus courtship dense density Descamps Desert Locust diapause Dirsh Dociostaurus maroccanus ecofauna ecological effect egg-pods eggs Ellis & Ashall factors feeding females field flying forest G. B. Popov Gomphocerinae Gomphocerus graminicolous grass grasshoppers gregarious ground groups habitats hatching herbivorous hibernate hopper bands hoppers and adults humidity insects instar internal temperature jump km² laboratory laying legs life-forms Locusta hoppers Locusta migratoria mainly male marching maturation Melanoplus sanguinipes migrations Migratory Locust mortality movements night Nomadacris non-swarming observed occur oöcyte Orthoptera outbreak area oviposition parallelus pattern period plague plants pods populations R. F. Chapman Rainey rainfall recorded relation result roosting Rubtzov Rukwa savanna Schistocerca hoppers seasonal soil solitarious species stridulation studies suggested swarms terricoles Uvarov vegetation Waloff Weis-Fogh wind zone