Diel Behavioral Activity Patterns in Adult Solitarious Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål)
Table 1
Comparison of overall means (SE) frequencies of walking, scanning, and jumping per insect for locusts caught from field in presence and absence of host plant (Heliotropium sp.) stimulus in photo- and scotophase. insects used for each of the three behaviors.
Behavioral activity (frequency of occurrence/insect)
Scanning
Jumping
Walking
Sex
Stimuli
Photophase
Scotophase
Photophase
Scotophase
Photophase
Scotophase
Males
None
Females
None
Males
Host plant
Females
Host plant
Means with the same superscript letter in each column for each behavior are not significantly different (LSD test, ).