This volume has come about as a direct result of a Symposium entitled "Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour" which was an important con tribution to the 14 International Congress of Entomology held in Canberra, Australia, in August 1972 under the joint sponsorship of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Entomological Society. It is not, however, strictly Symposium proceedings. I have included, in this volume contributions from several workers who had to withdraw from the Symposium at a fairly late stage. Furthermore, quite intentionally, a number of the contributions bear only a general relationship to the papers given at the Congress. To permit this; the deadline for contribu tions was set at some six months after the Symposium. I imposed no restrictions on the form of the contributions. I did, however, indicate that speculative reviews highlighting the author's own recent research or that of his immediate colleagues would be particularly acceptable, and a number of the contributors have taken the opportunity to write this kind of paper. Several contributors, notably those whose task it was to give more general papers in the Symposium itself, have written reviews of somewhat greater scope. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Changes of Responsiveness in the Patterning of Behavioural Sequences....Pages 1-6 Sequential Analysis and Regulation of Insect Reproductive Behaviour....Pages 7-20 Sensory Input and the Inconstant Fly....Pages 21-31 Control of Feeding and Drinking in Diapausing Insects....Pages 32-47 The Regulation of Food Intake by Acridids....Pages 48-59 Neural Mechanisms of Response Modification in Insects....Pages 60-86 Boredom and Attention in a Cell in the Locust Visual System....Pages 87-99 The Antennae of Insects as Air-Current Sense Organs and their Relationship to the Control of Flight....Pages 100-113 Rhythmic Activities and the Insect Nervous System....Pages 114-138 An Analysis of Direction Finding in Male Mosquitoes....Pages 139-148 The Development of the Flight Pattern in Locusts....Pages 149-158 Insect Flight as a System for the Study of the Development of Neuronal Connections....Pages 159-179 Design and Function in the Insect Brain....Pages 180-194 Learning and Memory in the Honeybee....Pages 195-217 Periodicity in the Activity and Learning Performance of the Honeybee....Pages 218-227 Massed Training and Latent Habituation of the Deimatic Response in the Mantid, Stagmatoptera Biocellata ....Pages 228-236 Chemical Influence on Feeding Behavior of Leptinotarsa Beetles....Pages 237-248 The Role of the Hydrocarbon α-Farnesene in the Behaviour of Codling Moth Larvae and Adults....Pages 249-263 Neurosecretory and Corpus Allatum Controlled Effects on Male Sexual Behaviour in Acridids....Pages 264-277 The Role of Hormones in the Reproductive Behavior of Female Wild Silkmoths....Pages 278-285 Hormones and Insect Behavior....Pages 286-296 Migratory Behaviour of the Female of the Common Cockchafer Melolontha Melolontha L, and its Neuroendocrine Regulation....Pages 297-303 A Comparison of the Migratory Strategies of Two Milkweed Bugs, Oncopeltus Fasciatus and Lygaeus Kalmii ....Pages 304-316 The Hormonal Control of Flight in the Milkweed Bug, Oncopeltus Fasciatus ....Pages 317-328 The Experimental Analysis of Migration and Life-History Strategies in Insects....Pages 329-342 Back Matter....Pages 343-368
