Insect Behavior

Also of Interest -- Preface -- Observation, Description, and Analysis of Behavior -- Conducting a Personal Project on Insect Behavior in the Field -- Observation, Description, and Quantification of Behavior: A Study of Praying Mantids -- Sampling Methods and Interobserver Reliability: Cockroach Grooming -- Spatial Adjustment and Orientation -- Orientation: I. Thermokinesis in Tribolium Beetles -- Orientation: II. Optomotor Responses of Dragonfly Naiads -- Patterns of Spatial Distribution in Field Crickets -- Object Orientation in Mealworm Beetles -- The Locomotion of Grasshoppers -- Food Location -- Optimal Foraging Strategy: I. Flower Choice by Bumble Bees -- Optimal Foraging Strategy: II. Foraging Movements of Bumble Bees -- Foraging Behavior of Subterranean Termites -- Foraging Orientation of Honey Bees -- Food Recognition, Acceptance, and Regulation -- Host Acceptance by Aphids: Effects of Sinigrin -- Blow Fly Feeding Behavior -- Communication -- Communication in Mealworm Beetles -- Chemical Recruitment in the Fire Ant -- Exploratory and Recruitment Trail Marking by Eastern Tent Caterpillars -- Dominance in a Cockroach (Nauphoeta) -- Cricket Phonotaxis: Experimental Analysis of an Acoustic Response -- Defense -- Defensive Behavior in Beetles -- Sexual Behavior -- Reproductive Behavior of Giant Water Bugs: I. Male Brooding -- Reproductive Behavior of Giant Water Bugs: II. Courtship, Role Reversal, and Paternity Assurance -- Sexual Behavior of Damselflies -- Courtship of Melittobia Wasps -- Food-Based Territoriality and Sex Discrimination in the Water Strider Gerris -- Brood Care, Nesting, and Social Life -- Foundress Interactions in Paper Wasps (Polistes) -- Sound Production and Communication in Subsocial Beetles -- Integration and Organization of Behavior -- Comparative Anatomy of the Insect Neuroendocrine System -- Grooming in the Fly Phormia -- Laterality in Drosophila -- Candles, Moths, and Ants: The Dielectric Waveguide Theory of Insect Olfaction -- Non-Traditional Behavioral Study Methods -- Modeling of Random Search Paths and Foraging Paths -- Sound Communication in Aedes Mosquitoes: A "Dry Lab" Exercise in Data Interpretation -- Developing Observational Abilities and Generating Hypotheses: Non-Traditional Training Exercises for Behavioral Scientists -- Aids to the Instructor -- Comparing Behavioral Samples with Common Nonparametric Statistical Tests -- Statistical Tables -- Supplemental Resources