Studies on the generation of rhythmic motor patterns have shown that peripheral sensory input may contribute substantially to the rhythm generating network. A prominent example is the wing beat frequency of desert locusts, which can be entrained to rhythmic mechanosensory input, but also to the frequency of periodic light flashes. To further analyze the entrainment by light, tethered flying locusts were presented with periodic light flashes, while the position of the forewing was filmed. We show that entrainment of wing beat occurs both in the UV and green range of light. Animals maintained a characteristic phase relationship to the light stimulus with the most elevated wing position occurring at the end of the dark phase. Speed and time co...
International audienceMale Schistocerca gregaria reared in dense groups are tested on individual rou...
Locusts have two large collision-detecting neurons, the descending contralateral movement detectors ...
The flight performance of animals depends greatly on the efficacy with which they generate aerodynam...
The pattern of oviposition in the grasshopper, Chorthippus curtipennis, shows a rhythm which is entr...
can in (Cooter, 1989; Rainey, 1989). Within a given region of the swarm, locusts generally fly with ...
The control of horizontal motion of the locust antenna was studied by behavioural and electrophysiol...
Locusts show an extreme example of density-dependent phase polymorphism, demonstrating within the sp...
1. We simultaneously recorded lift/body weight, flight speed, body angle and 12 variables of wing mo...
WOS:A1983QG64000002International audienceThe possible role of different kind of photoreceptors in sy...
This paper employs new statistical techniques to further analyze the flight control system of grassh...
Previous studies of insect flight control have been statistical in approach, simply correlating wing...
Here we provide the first formal quantitative analysis of dynamic stability in a flying animal. By m...
The tegula, a complex sense organ associated with the wing base of the locust, plays an important ro...
Flight control in insects is heavily dependent on vision. Thus, in dim light, the decreased reliabil...
One of the functional roles suggested for the insect ocelli is their involvement in flight behaviour...
International audienceMale Schistocerca gregaria reared in dense groups are tested on individual rou...
Locusts have two large collision-detecting neurons, the descending contralateral movement detectors ...
The flight performance of animals depends greatly on the efficacy with which they generate aerodynam...
The pattern of oviposition in the grasshopper, Chorthippus curtipennis, shows a rhythm which is entr...
can in (Cooter, 1989; Rainey, 1989). Within a given region of the swarm, locusts generally fly with ...
The control of horizontal motion of the locust antenna was studied by behavioural and electrophysiol...
Locusts show an extreme example of density-dependent phase polymorphism, demonstrating within the sp...
1. We simultaneously recorded lift/body weight, flight speed, body angle and 12 variables of wing mo...
WOS:A1983QG64000002International audienceThe possible role of different kind of photoreceptors in sy...
This paper employs new statistical techniques to further analyze the flight control system of grassh...
Previous studies of insect flight control have been statistical in approach, simply correlating wing...
Here we provide the first formal quantitative analysis of dynamic stability in a flying animal. By m...
The tegula, a complex sense organ associated with the wing base of the locust, plays an important ro...
Flight control in insects is heavily dependent on vision. Thus, in dim light, the decreased reliabil...
One of the functional roles suggested for the insect ocelli is their involvement in flight behaviour...
International audienceMale Schistocerca gregaria reared in dense groups are tested on individual rou...
Locusts have two large collision-detecting neurons, the descending contralateral movement detectors ...
The flight performance of animals depends greatly on the efficacy with which they generate aerodynam...