Download or read book The Effects of High and Low Temperatures on Certain Insects written by G. H. Mansbridge and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insects at Low Temperature written by Richard Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of insects at low temperature is a comparatively new field. Only recently has insect cryobiology begun to mature, as research moves from a descriptive approach to a search for underlying mechanisms at diverse levels of organization ranging from the gene and cell to ecological and evolutionary relationships. Knowledge of insect responses to low temperature is crucial for understanding the biology of insects living in seasonally varying habitats as well as in polar regions. It is not possible to precisely define low temperature. In the tropics exposure to 10-15°C may induce chill coma or death, whereas some insects in temperate and polar regions remain active and indeed even able to fly at O°C or below. In contrast, for persons interested in cryopreservation, low temperature may mean storage in liquid nitrogen at - 196°C. In the last decade, interest in adaptations of invertebrates to low temperature has risen steadily. In part, this book had its origins in a symposium on this subject that was held at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, USA in December, 1988. However, the emergence and growth of this area has also been strongly influenced by an informal group of investigators who met in a series of symposia held in Oslo, Norway in 1982, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1985 and in Cambridge, England in 1988. Another is scheduled for Binghamton, New York, USA (1990).
Download or read book Low Temperature Biology of Insects written by David L. Denlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low temperature is a major environmental constraint impacting the geographic distribution and seasonal activity patterns of insects. Written for academic researchers in environmental physiology and entomology, this book explores the physiological and molecular mechanisms that enable insects to cope with a cold environment and places these findings into an evolutionary and ecological context. An introductory chapter provides a primer on insect cold tolerance and subsequent chapters in the first section discuss the organismal, cellular and molecular responses that allow insects to survive in the cold despite their, at best, limited ability to regulate their own body temperature. The second section, highlighting the evolutionary and macrophysiological responses to low temperature, is especially relevant for understanding the impact of global climate change on insect systems. A final section translates the knowledge gained from the rest of the book into practical applications including cryopreservation and the augmentation of pest management strategies.
Download or read book Temperature Sensitivity In Insects And Application In Integrated Pest Management written by Guy J Hallman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools (IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on temperature.
Download or read book The Hot Blooded Insects written by Bernd Heinrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at the interfaces of physiology, ecology and behaviour have cause to be grateful, and all should certainly read this book." (Trends in Ecology & Evolution) "An outstanding source of information, and can be read with profit and satisfaction by the professional biologist and interested amateur alike." (Nature)
Download or read book Insect Development written by P. A. Lawrence and published by Royal Entomological Society. This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effect of Physical Factors in the Ecology of Certain Insects in Logs written by Samuel Alexander Graham and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Standard Atmosphere 1976 written by United States Committee on Extension to the Standard Atmosphere and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insects at Low Temperatures written by Richard Lee and published by . This book was released on 1991-02-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caterpillars written by Nancy E. Stamp and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caterpillars are excellent model systems for the investigation of insect-plant interactions, predator-prey interactions, and insect physiology. Despite this, however, there is at present only a limited understanding of the constraints on foraging patterns of caterpillars. A major problem is the difficulty of designing and analyzing experiments which account for multiple constraints. Caterpillars: Ecological and Evolutionary Constraints on Foraging reviews the present state of research into caterpillar biology while arguing for a multiple factor approach in studying insect herbivores. Written by leading authorities in entomology and ecology, it provides an explicit framework for carrying out such investigations. The book details the constraints of the foraging patterns of caterpillars, including phylogenetic constraints, the physical environment, nutritional supply and demand, predators, and plant chemical defenses. It also analyzes caterpillar adaptations, such as sociality, mutualism, aposematism, and cryptic morphology, and covers population dynamics and the influence of environmental factors upon tropical, temperate, and arctic caterpillars. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of this material for pest management, forest systems, and agroecosystems.
Download or read book Under the Weather written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.
Download or read book The Lethal and Sub lethal Effects of Low Temperatures on Insects written by William Everett Glyn Parish and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternatives to Pesticides in Stored Product IPM written by Bhadriraju Subramanyam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects associated with raw grain and processed food cause qualitative and quantitative losses. Preventing these losses caused by stored-product insects is essential from the farmer's field to the consumer's table. While traditional pesticides play a significant role in stored-product integrated pest management (IPM), there has recently been, and will continue to be, a greater emphasis on alternative approaches. Alternatives to Pesticides in Stored-Product IPM details the most promising methods, ranging from extreme temperatures to the controversial radiation, and from insect-resistant packaging to pathogens. This collection is essential for anyone in academia, industry, or government interested in pest ecology or food or grain science.
Download or read book Insect Pathology written by Yoshinori Tanada and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insect Pathology is designed for a broad spectrum of readers. Is should be useful to students, lecturers, and researchers requiring information about the principles in insect pathology and the biology of pathogens. It should serve as a resource for specialists to learn about other insect pathogen systems, for generalists to become aware of advances in insect pathology, and for scientists and students, beginning or otherwise, interested in learning about insect pathology. This book was originally intended to update the 1949 test by E. A. Steinhaus entitled Principles of Insect Pathology. The purpose for this book was twofold: To serve (1) as a text for an insect pathology and/or biological control class and (2) as a comprehensive reference source. Because this book summarizes much of the available information, its usefulness as a textbook for an insect pathology class is apparent. Although the literature citations are extensive, they are far from complete. The literature in insect pathology is voluminous and for the past decade has been expanding at an almost exponential rate. A complete review of the literature is beyond the scope of the book, and an omission of a reference does not preclude its importance. Our citations, however, should serve as a good starting point for those who wish to obtain further information. We have attempted to cover equally all subdisciplines, but shortcomings are unavoidable. For these, we take full responsibility.
Download or read book Climate Change and the Effect of Temperature on Forest Insect Pests written by Jeffrey Alan Lombardo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects and other biotic agents are a major source of forest disturbance in eastern North America, with the potential for widespread ecological, economic, and social consequences. Mitigating effects of pest outbreaks requires knowledge of the factors that regulate their populations, and for insects and other ectotherms, temperature is one of the most important of these factors. Here, we tested a number of hypotheses focusing on the effects of different temperature regimes on population level processes. For each chapter we used the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis), one of the most destructive forest insect pests, as a model species. This insect has undergone important changes in population abundance at both the northern and southern extremes of their distribution. We first investigated the influence of cold temperatures, which have become increasingly important as populations expand northward. We specifically examined the influence of overwintering temperatures on the population life stage structure. We hypothesized that colder temperatures could lead to a convergence of the life stage structure, and this could subsequently produce a high level of synchrony in their flight phenology the following spring. Results from a series of experimental tests, as well as theoretical explorations using development rate models supported this hypothesis; however, field observations were mixed. The second set of hypotheses focused on the effects of high temperature exposure on southern pine beetle populations. As climate change alters global surface temperatures, the occurrence of heat waves are predicted to increase. We analyzed longterm (74 years) temperature records to characterize high temperatures events in the southern pine region. This information was paired with a series of experimental tests of high temperature tolerance in the southern pine beetle, to determine how extreme high temperatures may be impacting southern populations. We experimentally tested both acute and chronic high temperature exposure in northern and southern populations of the beetle. Results from the climate analysis showed no significant change in yearly maximum temperatures throughout the southern pine region, and model results indicated that the characteristics of both common and rare heat waves had not changed over the 74 year study period. Experimental tests of high temperature exposure in southern pine beetle larvae showed a greater than expected tolerance to thermal extremes, and these results were consistent in both northern and southern populations. Overall, we conclude that high temperatures do not explain recent changes in southern pine beetle populations in their historic southern habitat.
Download or read book The Principles of Insect Control written by Robert Arnold Wardle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1923 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Insect Pest Control Procedure written by Toby Raphael and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
