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The Experimental Analysis of Migration and Life-History Strategies in Insects

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Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour

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The introduction of experimental methods into the study of insect migration is a relatively recent phenomenon. Earlier studies based on field observations, light trapping, and the compilation of arrival and breeding dates had clearly shown that migration in insects was widespread (Williams 1958), but it was not until migrant insects were studied in both laboratory and field that the nature of migration as a physiological syndrome was understood. Not that field observations were rendered less important, far from it (e.g. Baker 1969), but the data from experimental approaches could now be combined with the field data to provide an integrated view of the whole migration process (Johnson 1969; Dingle 1972). Pioneering the experimental approach was J.S. Kennedy whose now classic papers on the flight and settling of Aphis fabae (Kennedy 1958, 1965, 1966, this volume; Kennedy and Booth 1963a,b, 1964) showed that migration is characterized by the enhancement of flight behaviour, the inhibition of settling and reproductive behaviour, and complex interactions among the three.

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Dingle, H. (1974). The Experimental Analysis of Migration and Life-History Strategies in Insects. In: Barton Browne, L. (eds) Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86666-1_25

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