Potential of Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to Adapt to Alternative Host Plants.

Twelve selected cultivated or wild solanaceae (Solanum dulcamara, Solanum nigrum, Solanum villosum, Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum muricatum, Solanum melongena, Datura innoxia, Datura metel, Physalis spp., Capsicum annuum, Nicotiana alata, and Petunia spp.) (all species Solanales: Solanaceae) were tested as potential alternative host plants against Solanum tuberosum for a local population of the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say (CPB) in Estonia.

Dynamics of Supercooling Ability and Cold Tolerance of the Alder Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).

Agelastica alni L. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is a common beetle pest of alder trees (Alnus incana L.) in forests and parks across Estonia.

The opening-closing rhythms of the subelytral cavity associated with gas exchange patterns in diapausing Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata.

The opening-closing rhythms of the subelytral cavity and associated gas exchange patterns were monitored in diapausing Leptinotarsa decemlineata beetles. Measurements were made by means of a flow-through CO analyser and a coulometric respirometer. Under the elytra of these beetles there is a more or less tightly enclosed space, the subelytral cavity (SEC).

Oxygen convective uptakes in gas exchange cycles in early diapause pupae of Pieris brassicae.

Oxygen convective uptakes in gas exchange cycles were directly recorded in early diapause pupae of Pieris brassicae L. (Lepidoptera; Pieridae) by means of O2 coulometric respirometry. This method was combined with flow-through CO2 respirometry, the two systems being switchable one to the other.

Spike bursts generated by the thermosensitive (cold) neuron from the antennal campaniform sensilla of the ground beetle Platynus assimilis.

Responses of the antennal thermosensitive neuron of the ground beetle Platynus assimilis to warming from 20 to 50 degrees C were measured and analysed. During warming, neurons switched from regular spiking to bursting. ISI analysis showed that the number of spikes in the burst and spike frequency within the burst were temperature dependent and may precisely encode unfavourably or dangerously high temperatures in a graded manner.

Electrophysiological responses to salts from antennal chaetoid taste sensilla of the ground beetle Pterostichus aethiops.

Antennal gustatory sensilla of the ground beetle Pterostichus aethiops (Pz., 1797) (Coleoptera, Carabidae) respond to salts, the three sensory cells, A-, B- and C-cells, producing action potentials that are distinguished by differences in their shape, amplitude, duration and polarity of spikes. The B-cell (salt cell) was highly sensitive to both ionic composition and concentration of the tested nine salt solutions showing phasic-tonic type of reaction with a pronounced phasic component.

Antennal sensilla of the ground beetle Bembidion properans Steph. (Coleoptera, Carabidae).

The arrangement of antennal sensilla was studied in female and male ground beetles Bembidion properans Steph. (Coleoptera, Carabidae) using scanning electron microscopy. The filiform antennae, 1.