Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences [Dept. of Entomology]

ASSIGNED PAPERS FOR INSECT BEHAVIOR

16:370:519, Entomology, Rutgers University    SPRING 2000

The following books will be on reserve in the Chang Library:

  • Lewis, T., ed., 1984. Insect Communication, Academic Press;
  • Matthews, R. M., & J. R. Matthews. 1978. Insect Behavior, John Wiley;
  • Papaj, D. R., & A. C. Lewis, eds.,  1993. Insect Learning, Chapman & Hall;
  • Thornhill, R., & J. Alcock. 1983. The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems, Harvard Univ. Press;

 And the following (personal property of M. May) in the Entomology Office:

  • Atkins, M. D., 1980. Introduction to Insect Behavior. MacMillan, NY;
  • Gwynne, D. T., & G. K. Morris. 1983. Orthopteran Mating Systems. Westview Press, Boulder, CO;
  • Matthews, R. M., & J. R. Matthews. 1978. Insect Behavior, John Wiley;
  • Ross, K. G., & R. W. Matthews, 1991. The Social Biology of Wasps. Comstock Publ., Ithaca, NY;
  • Thornhill, R., & J. Alcock. 1983. The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems, Harvard Univ. Press;
  • Wilson, E. O., 1971. The Insect Societies. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA

Copies of the papers listed below are available in the Entomology Office and at the reserve shelf in the Chang Library, grouped by assignment in manila folders. Please feel free to make copies of them if you wish, at your expense, but please do not remove the reserve copies from the office except very briefly if you wish to photocopy them elsewhere. Also, if you make copies on the Entomology Dept. machine, we would appreciate it if you would make two-sided copies whenever possible.

Readings listed in brackets are available as background or supplementary material but will not be the focus of discussion. I suggest that everyone, especially the discussion moderator, be familiar with as much of this material as possible; these papers are not required, however.

Jan. 20   Introductory meeting

Jan. 24   LECTURE - Behavior and evolution

Jan. 27

  • Baroni Urbani, C., 1989. Phylogeny and behavioural evolution in ants, with a discussion of the role of behaviour in evolutionary processes. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 1:137-168.
  • Carpenter, J. M., 1982. The phylogenetic relationships and natural classification of the Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 7:11-38.
  • Carpenter, J. M., 1987. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Vespinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Systematic Entomology 12:413-431.
  • Carpenter, J. M., 1988. The phylogenetic system of the Stenogastrinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96:140-175.
  • Wimberger, P. H. & A. de Queiroz, 1996. Comparing behavioral and morphological characters as indicators of phylogeny. In Phylogenies and the Comparative Method in Animal Behavior, E. P. Martins, ed. Oxford Univ. Press. Pp. 206-233.
  • Miller, J. S., & J. W. Wenzel, 1995. Ecological characters and phylogeny. Annual Review of Entomology 40:389-415.]

Jan. 31

  • Henry, C. S., 1985. Sibling species, call differences, and speciation in green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysoperla). Evolution 39:965-984.
  • Henry, C. S., 1994. Singing and cryptic speciation in insects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:388-392.
  • Wells, M. M., & C. S. Henry, 1992. The role of courtship songs in reproductive isolation among populations of green lacewings of the genus Chrysoperla (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae). Evolution 46:31-42.
  • Wells, M. M., & C. S. Henry, 1994. Behavioral responses of hybrid lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) to courtship songs. Journal of Insect Behavior 7:649-662.
  • Henry, C. S., 1985. The proliferation of cryptic species in Chrysoperla green lacewings through song divergence. Florida Entomologist  68:18-38.
  • Henry, C. S., & C. Busher, 1987. Patterns of mating and fecundity in several common green lacewings (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae) of eastern North America. Psyche 94:219-244.
  • Henry, C. S., S. J. Brooks, J. B. Robinson. & P. Duelli, 1996. Chrysoperla lucasina (Lacroix): a distinct species of green lacewing, confirmed by acoustical analysis (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Systematic Entomology 21:205-218.
  • Wells, M. M., 1994. Small genetic distances among populations of green lacewings of the genus Chrysoperla (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America  87:737-744.
  • Thornhill, R., & J. Alcock, 1983. The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press. Pp. 408-413.

Feb. 3  

  • Brockman, H. J., & R. Dawkins, 1979. Joint nesting in a digger wasp as an evolutionarily stable preadaptation to social life. Behaviour 71:203-245.
  • Brockman, H. J., & A. Grafen, & R. Dawkins, 1979. Evolutionary stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp. Journal of Theoretical Biology 77:473-496.
  • Maynard Smith, J.,  1982. Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge Univ. Press. Pp. 1-23.

 Feb. 7    LECTURE:  Intro. to physiological bases of behavior, spatial orientation and temporal patterning.

 Feb. 10

  • Camhi, J. M., & M. Hinkle, 1972. Attentiveness to sensory stimuli: central control in locusts. Science 175:550-553.
  • Reichert, H., C. H. F. Rowell, & C. Griss. 1985. Course correction circuitry translates feature detection into behavioural action in locusts. Nature 315:142-144.
  • Reichert, H., 1989. Neural mechanisms underlying axial/appendicular steering reactions in locust flight. American Zoolologist 29:161-169.
  • Camhi, J. M., 1970. Yaw-correcting postural changes in locusts. Journal of Experimental Biology 52:519-531.
  • Camhi, J. M., 1971. Flight orientation in locusts. Scientific American, Aug. 1971.
  • Reichert, H., & C. H. F. Rowell, 1986. Neuronal circuits controlling flight in the locust: how sensory information is processed for motor control. Trends in Neurosciences 9:281-283. (Very similar to other Reichert/Rowell papers, included in case they say it here in a more understandable way for some.

Feb 14 

  • Liang, D., & C. Schal, 1993. Calling behavior of the female German cockroach, Blatella germanica (Dictyoptera: Blatellidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 6:603-614.
  • Liang, D., & C. Schal, 1994. Neural and hormonal regulation of calling behavior in Blatella germanica females. Journal of Insect Physiology 40:251-258.
  • Schal, C., G. L. Holbrook, J. A. S. Bachmann, & V. L. Sevala, 1997. Reproductive biology of the German cockroach, Blatella germanica: juvenile hormone as a pleiotropic master regulator. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 35:405-426.
  • Smith, A. F., and C. Schal, 1991. Circadian calling behavior of the adult female brown-banded cockroach, Supella longipalpa (F. ) (Dictyoptera: Blatellidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4:1-14. (Please read this paper if possible, it will be discussed briefly if time allows as it is our only paper specifically about circadian periodicity. )
  • Schal, C., and A. -S. Chiang, 1995. Hormonal control of sexual receptivity in cockroaches. Experientia 51:994-998.

 Feb. 17

  • Gillis, J. E., & K. W. Possai, 1983. Thermal niche partitioning in the grasshoppers Arphia conspersa and Trimerotropis suffusa from a montane habitat in central Colorado. Ecolological Entomology  8:155-161.
  • Whitman, D. W., 1987. Thermoregulation and daily activity patterns in a black desert grasshopper, Taeniopoda eques. Animal Behaviour  35:1814-1826.
  • Whitman, D. W., 1988. Function and evolution of thermoregulation in the desert grasshopper Taeniopoda eques. Journal of Animal Ecology 57:369-383.
  • May, M. L., 1985. Thermoregulation. In Comprehensive Insect Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology, (Kerkut & Gilbert, eds. ), Vol. 4, pp. 507-552. Oxford, Pergamon. (Intended mainly as a general background reference, with some info. on earlier grasshopper studies. )
  • Willot, S. J., 1997. Thermoregulation in four species of British grasshoppers. Functional Ecology 11:705-713. (A more recent effort to relate thermoregulatory capacity to habitat selection, of interest to compare with Gillis & Possai but with little behavioral detail)

 Feb. 21   LECTURE:  Intro. to feeding behavior.

 Feb 24

  • Nault, L. R., & W. E. Styer, 1972. Effects of sinigrin on host selection by aphids. Entomologia. Experimentalis et Applicata 15:423-437.
  • Du, Y. -J., G. M. Poppy, & W. Powell, 1996. Relative importance of semiochemicals from first and second trophic levels in host foraging behavior of Aphidius ervi. Journal of Chemical Ecology 22:1591-1605.
  • Ayal, Y., 1987. The foraging strategy of Diaretella rapae. I. The concept of the elementary unit of foraging. Journal of Animal Ecology 56:1057-1068.
  • Read, D. P., et al., 1970. Habitat selection by the aphid parasite Diaretella rapae and hyperparasite Charips brassicae. Canadian Entomologist 102:1567-1578. (An older paper, similar in conception to Du, et al., but dealing with the crucifer system as in Nault & Styer and Ayal. )
  • Sheehan, W., & A. M. Shelton, 1989. Parasitoid response to concentration of herbivore food plants: finding and leaving plants. Ecology 70:993-998.
  • Vet, L. E., & M. Dicke, 1992. Ecology of infochemical use by natural enemies in a tritrophic context. Annual Review of Entomology 37:141-172.

 Feb  28

  • Formanowisz, D. R., 1984. Foraging tactics of an aquatic insect: partial consumption of prey. Animal Behaviour 32:774-781.
  • Vos, M., L. Hemerik, & L. E. M. Vet, 1998. Patch exploitation by the parasitoids Cotesia rubecula and Cotesia glomerata in multi-patch environments with different host distributions. Journal of Animal Ecology 67:774-783.
  • Sih, A., 1980. Optimal foraging: partial consumption of prey. American Naturalist 116:281-290.
  • Stephens, D. W., & J. R. Krebs, 1986. Foraging Theory, Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 3-37, 170-205.
  • Wiskerke, J. S. C., and L. E. M. Vet, 1994. Foraging for solitarily and gregariously feeding caterpillars: a comparison of two related parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 7:585-603. (An important adjunct to the Vos, et al., paper since it describes the behaviors and outcomes of Cotesia foraging in more detail.)

Mar. 2

  • Rausher, M. D., 1978. Search image for leaf shape in a butterfly. Science 200:1071-1073.
  • Papaj, D. R., 1986. Shifts in foraging behavior by a Battus philenor population: field evidence for switching by individual butterflies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociabiology 19:31-39.
  • Papaj, D. R., 1986. Conditioning of leaf-shape discrimination by chemical cues in the butterfly, Battus philenor. Animal Behaviour 34:1281-1288.
  • Rausher, M. D., 1980. Host abundance, juvenile survival, and oviposition preference in Battus philenor. Evolution 34:342-355.

  Mar.  6   

  • Real, L. A.,  1981. Uncertainty and pollinator plant interactions: the foraging behavior of bees and wasps on artificial flowers. Ecology 62:20-26.
  • Real, L. A., J. Ott, & E. Silverfine, 1982. On the tradeoff between the mean and the variance in foraging: effect of spatial distribution and color preference. Ecology 63:1617-1623.
  • Harder, L. D., & L. A. Real,  1987. Why are bumblebees risk-averse?  Ecology 68:1104-1108.
  • Possingham, H. P., et al., 1990. Risk-averse foraging in bees: a comment on the model of Harder and Real. Ecology 71:1622-1624.
  • Real, L., et al.,  1990. Short-term energy maximization and risk-aversion in bumble bees: a reply to Possingham, et al. Ecology 71:1625-1628.
  • Carter, R. V., & L. M. Dill, Why are bumblebees risk-sensitive foragers:  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26:121-127.
  • Stephens, D. W., & J. R. Krebs, 1986. Foraging Theory, Princeton Univ. Press, pp. 128-150.

 Mar.  9  LECTURE:  Intro. to communication; escape and defense.

 Mar. 13, 16   SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS.

 Mar.   20 

  • Baker, T. C., W. Meyers, & W. L. Roelofs, 1981. Sex pheromone dosage and blend specificity of response by oriental fruit moth males. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 30:269-279.
  • Baker, T. C., & R. T. Carde, 1979. Courtship behavior of the oriental fruit moth (Grapholitha molesta): experimental analysis and consideration of the role of sexual selection in the evolution of courtship pheromones in the Lepidoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America  72:173-188.
  • Phelan, P. L., & T. C. Baker, 1990. Information transmission during intra- and interspecific courtship in Ephestia elutella and Cadra figulella. Journal of Insect Behavior 3:589-602.
  • Baker, T. C., & R. T. Carde, 1979. Analysis of pheromone-mediated behaviors in male Grapholitha molesta, the oriental fruit moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Environmental Entomology  8:956-968.

Mar. 23 

  • Sillen-Tullberg, B., 1988. Evolution of gregariousness in aposematic butterfly larvae: a phylogenetic analysis. Evolution 42:293-305.
  • Maddison, W. P., 1990. A method for testing the correlated evolution of two binary characters: are gains or losses concentrated on certain branches of a phylogenetic tree?  Evolution 44:539-557. (Only pp. 539-543 and 548-550 are required).
  • Brooks, D. R., & D. A. McLennan, 1991. Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior. Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp. 146-151.
  • Harvey, P. H., & M. D. Pagel, 1991. The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford Univ. Press. Pp. 1-49, 78-94.

 Mar. 27 

  • Camhi, J. M., & W. Tom, 1978. The escape behavior of the cockroach Periplaneta americana I. Turning responses to wind puffs. Journal of Comparative Physiology 128:193-201.
  • Camhi, J. M., & W. Tom, 1978. The escape behavior of the cockroach Periplaneta americana II. Detection of natural predators by air displacement. Journal of Comparative Physiology 128:203-212.
  • Ritzmann, R. E., & J. M. Camhi, 1978. Excitation of leg motor neurons by giant interneurons in the cockroach Periplaneta americana. Journal of Comparative Physiology 125:305-316.
  • Comer, C. M., & J. P. Dowd, 1993. Multisensory processoing for movement: antennal and cercal mediation of escape turning in the cockroach. In Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics, R. D. Beer, R. E. Ritzmann, & T. McKenna, eds. Boston, Academic Press. Pp. 89-112
  • Ritzman, R. E., 1993. The neural organization of cockroach escape and its role in context-dependent orientation. In Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics, R. D. Beer, R. E. Ritzmann, & T. McKenna, eds. Boston, Academic Press. Pp. 113-137.

 Mar.  30 LECTURE:  Intro to reproductive behavior.

 Apr. 3

  • Waage, J. K., 1988. Confusion over residency and the escalation of damselfly territorial disputes. Animal Behaviour 36:586-595.
  • Marden, J. H., & J. K. Waage, 1990. Escalated damselfly territorial contests are energetic wars of attrition. Animal Behaviour 39:954-959.
  • Marden, J. H., & R. A. Rollins, 1994. Assessment of energy reserves by damselflies engaged in aerial contests for mating territories. Animal Behaviour 48:1023-1030.
  • Plaistow, S, & M. Siva-Jothy, 1996. Energetic constraints and male-mate-securing tactics in the damselfly Calopteryx splendens xanthosoma (Charpentier). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263:1233-1239.
  • Fincke, O. M., J. K. Waage, & W. D. Koenig, 1997. Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating systems In The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids, J. C. Choe & B. J. Crespi, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press. Pp. 58-74.

 Apr.  6  

  • Smith, R. L., 1976. Male brooding behavior of the water bug Abedus herberti. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 69:740-747.
  • Smith, R. L., 1979. Paternity assurance and altered roles in the mating behavior of a giant water bug, Abedus herberti. Animal Behaviour 27:716-725.
  • Smith, R. L., 1979. Repeated copulation and sperm precedence: paternity assurance for a male brooding water bug. Science 205:1027-1031.
  • Smith, R. L., 1997. Evolution of paternal care in giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belastomatidae). In The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids, J. C. Choe & B. J. Crespi, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press. Pp. 116-149.

Apr. 10 

  • Bartlett, J., 1987. Filial cannibalism in burying beetles. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 21:179-183.
  • Eggert, A. -K., & J. K. Muller, 1992. Joint breeding in female burying beetles. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 31:237-242.
  • Trumbo, S. T., 1992. Monogamy to communal breeding: exploitation of a broad resource base by burying beetles (Nicrophorus). Ecolological Entomology 17:289-298.
  • Scott, M. P., & S. M. Williams, 1993. Comparative reproductive success of communally breeding burying beetles as assessed by PCR with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A. 90:2224-2245.
  • Scott, M. P., 1997. Reproductive dominance and differential ovicide in the communally breeding burying beetle Nicrophorus tomentosus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40:313-320.
  • Eggert, A. -K., & J. K. Muller, 1997. Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder. In The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids, J. C. Choe & B. J. Crespi, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press. Pp. 216-236.
  • Scott, M. P., 1996. Communal breeding in burying beetles. American Scientist 84:376-382.
  • Scott, M. P., 1998. The ecology and behavior of burying beetles. Annual Review of Entomology 43:595-618.

Apr. 13  LECTURE:  Intro. to social behavior.

Apr. 17 

  • Pfennig, D. W., et al., 1983. The mechanism of nestmate discrimination in social wasps (Polistes, Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 21:125-128.
  • Gamboa, G. J., et al., 1986. Nestmate recognition in social wasps: the origin and acquisition of recognition odours. Animal Behaviour 34:685-695.
  • Gamboa, G. J., 1988. Sister, aunt-niece, and cousin recognition by social wasps. Behavior Genetics 18:409-423.
  • Gamboa, G. J., et al., 1986. The evolution and ontogeny of nestmate recognition in social wasps. Annual Review of Entomology 31:431-454.
  • Gamboa, G. J., 1996. Kin recognition in social wasps. In Natural History and Evolution of Paper-wasps, S. Turrilazzi & M. J. West-Eberhard, eds. Oxford University Press. Pp. 161-177.

Apr. 20  

  • Trivers, R. L., & H. Hare, 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of social insects. Science 191:249-267.
  • Mueller, U. G., 1991. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of facultative sex ratios in a primitively eusocial bee. Science 254:442-444.
  • Sundstrom, L., M. Chapuisat, & L. Keller, 1996. Conditional manipulation of sex ratios by ant workers: a test of kin selection theory. Science 274:993-995.
  • Lin, N., & C. D. Michener, 1972. Evolution of sociality in insects. Quarterly Review of Biology 47:131-159.
  • Evans, H. E., 1977.  Extrinsic vs. intrinsic factors in the evolution of insect sociality.  Bioscience 27:613-617.
  • Crozier, R. H., 1982. Of insects and insects: twists and turns in our understanding of the evolution of eusociality. In The Biology of Social Insects, M. Breed, C. D. Michener, & H. E. Evans, eds., Westview Press, Boulder, CO. Pp. 4-9.

Apr.  24

  • Wilson, E. O., 1976. Behavioral discretization and the number of castes in an ant species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1:141-154.
  • Wilson, E. O., 1984. The relation between caste and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16:89-98.
  • Wilson, E. O., & R. M. Fagan, 1974. On the estimation of behavioral repertories in ants. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 82:106-112.
  • Oster, G. F., & E. O. Wilson, 1978. Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. Princeton Univ. Press. Pp. 3-25, 119-155.

Apr.  27 

  • Tully, T., & W. G. Quinn, 1985. Classical conditioning and retention in normal and mutant Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Comparative Physiology 157:263-277.
  • Tully, T., et al., 1994. Genetic dissection of consolidated memory in Drosophila. Cell 79:35-47.
  • Connolly, J. B., et al., 1996. Associative learning disrupted by impaired GS signaling in Drosophila mushroom bodies. Science 274:2104-2107.
  • Yin, J. C. P., et al., 1994. Induction of a dominant negative CREB transgene specifically blocks long-term memory in Drosophila. Cell 79:49-58.
  • Dubnau, J., & , T. Tully, 1998. Gene discovery in Drosophila: new insights for learning and memory. Annual Review of Neuroscience 21:407-444.

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