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Insect Neurophysiology and Botanical Pest Control
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Orthopteran insects constitute the most important group of plant-feeding insects. This insect taxon has fascinated researchers for decades because of its stereotyped acoustic communication and devastating swarming behaviour. Both of these topics were studied in model species belonging to the order of Orthoptera. First, signal detection in noisy conditions was studied in the chirper bushcricket Mecopoda elongata, where males produce periodic chirps to attract females acoustically in their habitat. Second, a novel botanical pesticide based on linseed oil was developed to control the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria and the migratory locust Locusta migratoria. Both species can form destructive swarms in their gregarious phase and pose a great threat to agriculture. Finally, the hypothesis whether or not fatty acids contained in linseed oil act as a swarm disruptive agent for gregarious desert locusts was tested in behavioural experiments.
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La Dra. rer.nat. Zainab A. S. Abdelatti es egipcia y madre de tres niños pequeños. Es profesora en la Universidad de Graz-Austria. Pronto será promovida al puesto de profesora adjunta de Entomología en la Universidad de South Valley-Egipto. Está muy interesada en el comportamiento de los insectos, la comunicación, la cronotoxicología y el control botánico de las plagas.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786204204963
- Sprache Englisch
- Genre Biology
- Größe H220mm x B150mm
- Jahr 2021
- EAN 9786204204963
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- ISBN 978-620-4-20496-3
- Titel Insect Neurophysiology and Botanical Pest Control
- Autor Zainab Ali Saad Abdelatti
- Untertitel Stochastic resonance in bushcricket's hearing and alternative locust control
- Herausgeber LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 116