著者

鈴木 紀子

出版者

一般社団法人 日本生態学会

雑誌

日本生態学会誌 (ISSN:00215007)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.4, pp.277-280, 1978

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The biological economy in the nymph of Locusta migratoria when it feeds on the leaves of the grass Bromus unioloides was studied with special reference to dry matter and phosphorus at a constant temperature of 25℃. The phosphorus contents of the food plant, nymphal body, feces and the exuviae were 0.35%, 0.93%, 0.22% and 0.03%, respectively. The conversion efficiency for dry matter from the plant to the insect body was 16%, while that for phosphorus was 52% ; the latter being thus about three times as much as the former.