›› 1997, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (-1): 203-209.

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DISCUSSION ON INSECT MIGRATION WITH THE DISPERSION DIRECTED BY AIR CURRENT

Zhang Zhitao Cao Yazhong   

  • Online:1997-12-20 Published:1997-12-20

Abstract: It is a common phenomenon of nature that insect shifts from one habitat to another by flight, while its seasonal long distance migration in space with air current occurs in a special environment. It is one of the unifications of insect and environment during the course of evolution. The fact that an insect migrates from A to B and finds a habitat in B is a random event, but the migration of an insect population complies with certain statistic regularity. Thus, the migratory insect gets the initiative adaptation to the environment by using a passive mode, the dispersion directed by air current.

Key words: insect migration, dispersion with air current, randomness, regularity