Insects on Film

Insects on flowers

Insect biodiversity peaks in tropical rainforest environments where a large but as yet unknown proportion of species are found in the canopy. While there has been a proliferation of insect biodiversity research undertaken in the rainforest canopy, most studies focus solely on insects that inhabit the foliage. In a recent paper, we examined the distribution of canopy insects across five microhab...

Streptococci on Vegetation and Insects

GELDREICH E. E. (Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio), B. A. KENNER, AND P. W. KABLER. Occurrence of coliforms, fecal coliforms, and streptococci on vegetation and insects. Appl. Microbiol. 12:63-69. 1964.-This study considers the sanitary significance of coliforms, fecal coliforms, and streptococci isolated from 152 species of plants and...

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

Studies on the Flight Mechanism of Insects

Fibrillar type flight muscle powers the flight machinery of the more phylogenetically advanced groups of flying insects. A comparison of responses from single fibers in insects from various orders having fibrillar muscle reveals fundamental differences. In single fibers of flies and wasps the response to a single threshold stimulus is an all-or-none, uniformly rising, in most cases overshooting...

Energetics of ascent: insects on inclines.

Small animals use more metabolic energy per unit mass than large animals to run on a level surface. If the cost to lift one gram of mass one vertical meter is constant, small animals should require proportionally smaller increases in metabolic cost to run uphill. To test this hypothesis on very small animals possessing an exceptional capacity for ascending steep gradients, we measured the metab...