Symposium: Insect Behavioral Ecology--'84: Approaches to Insect Behavior of Interest to Both Neurobiologists and Behavioral Ecologists

Abstract

The manifold habitat-dependent behavioral tactics insects have evolved are the common subject of research by both behavioral ecologists and behaviorally oriented neurobiologists. Behavioral ecologists prefer to study undisturbed individuals and populations in the field. They describe behaviors of different species and try to elucidate how they contribute to reproductive success. Neurobiologists concentrate on substrates and mechanisms that underly distinct and quite often simple behavioral acts, and most commonly, they do this in restrained animals. This paper is an effort by an insect neurobiologist toward a mutualistic coexistence between behavioral ecology and neurobiology by the discussion of topics of insect behavior that can enhance future cooperation, especially in the field of communication systems.