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Physiological factors in insect migration by flight

C. G. Johnson
- 01 May 1963 - 
- Vol. 198, Iss: 4879, pp 423-427
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This article is published in Nature.The article was published on 1963-05-01. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Insect migration.

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Migration strategies of insects.

TL;DR: The similarities between birds and insects seem sufficient to indicate, at least provisionally, that the theory developed for insects applies also to birds with appropriate modifications for longer life span and more complex social behavior; comparisons between insects and fish lead to the same conclusion.
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Understanding and misunderstanding the migration of the monarch butterfly (Nymphalidae) in North America: 1857-1995

TL;DR: The present paper reconstructs the history of understanding the migration of the monarch butterfly in North America and reflects the spirit in which Charles Remington, then a graduate student at Harvard, and his friend and colleague Harry Clench founded The Lepidopterists' Society are reflected.
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Insect Seasonal Cycles: Genetics and Evolution

TL;DR: Knowledge of the evolution of seasonal cycles provides a key to understanding how organisms exploit their environment, how they interact, and in some instances species utilizing a single resource reduce competition by the seasonal partitioning of that resource.
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3 – The Energetics of Migration

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Migration of terrestrial arthropods in relation to habitat

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Fat combustion and metabolic rate of flying locusts (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål)

TL;DR: The nature and the amount of fuel used by flying Schistocerca gregaria Forskål have been estimated from direct analyses of the total content of fat and glycogen in control groups and in the corresponding flying groups, i.e. groups which had flown continuously for several hours.