Melanoplus sanguinipes

Insect Control. Grasshoppers were chosen as an assay organism because they are a major crop pest in the grain producing plains and plateau states, they are readily available year round from the Agricultural Experiment Station at Montana State, and they are relatively easy to maintain in the laboratory. Two species, Melanoplus bivitattus and Melanoplus sanguinipes. have been used in these assays. 

Toluene did not induce sex-linked recessive lethal mutations or translocations, but did induce sex-chromosome loss and nondisjunction in male Drosophila melanogaster and induced mitotic arrest (C-mitosis) in embryos of the grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes. 

SAS, Salmonella typhimurium UTH8413, reverse mutation SAS, Salmonella typhimurium UTH8414, reverse mutation Melanoplus sanguinipes embryo, C-mitosis... 

Blomquist, G.J. and Jackson, L.L. (1973a). Incorporation of labelled dietary n-alkanes into cuticular lipids of the grasshopper Melanoplus sanguinipes. J. Insect Physiol., 19, 1639-1647. 

Blomquist, G.J., Soliday, C.L., Byers, B.A., Brakke, J. W. and Jackson, L.L. (1972). Cuticular lipids of insects V. Cuticular wax esters of secondary alcohols from the grasshoppers Melanoplus packardii and Melanoplus sanguinipes. Lipids, 7, 356-362. 

Figure 6.5 Arrhenius plot of water-loss from a live grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes. Cuticular lipids extracted from this individual melted at 42°C. Data from Rourke and Gibbs (1999).

Rourke, B. C. (2000). Geographic and altitudinal variation in respiratory and cuticular water loss from the lesser migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes. 

EHMKE, A., PROKSCH, P., WITTE, L., HARTMANN, T., Fate of ingested pyrrolizidine alkaloid V-oxide in the grasshopper Melanoplus sanguinipes. Naturwissenschaften, 1989,76,27-29. 

Melanoplus sanguinipes (Orthoptera Acrididae) - the migratory grasshopper. 

At present, there are few reports on the ecology of C. iria and associated insects and the information available is vague and contradictory. In the initial report on the isolation of JH III from C. iria, third stadium grasshopper nymphs, Melanoplus sanguinipes, were raised on either... 

Linifolin A Melanoplus sanguinipes, Ostrinia nubilalis. Growth Tenulin Peridroma saucia, Sitophilus granarius. Longevity... 

Homoeosoma electellum, Melanoplus sanguinipes, Spodoptera eridania,... 

Confertin, Coronopilin Melanoplus sanguinipes Isochiapin B, Ligulatin C Spodoptera exigua... 

Sohday, C.L. Blomquist, G.J. Jackson, L.L. (1974). Cuticular hpads of insects. VI Cuticular lipids of the grasshoppers Melanoplus sanguinipes and Melanoplus packardii. Journal of Lipid Research, Vol.15, No.4, Quly 1974), pp. 399-405, ISSN 1539-7262... 

Precocenes induce precocious metamorphosis by causing irreversible changes in the development of the coipus alla-tum, a vital hormone-producing gland in insects. Treatment with juvenile hormone (produced by the corpus allatum) temporarily reverses the effects of precocenes (Bowers, 1988,1991,1992). Precocenes first are absorbed in the insect fat body. The use of this group of hemiterpenes for insecticidal purposes is limited, however, because of the specificity of action. Many insects are able to detoxify and excrete precocenes rapidly (Bowers, 1988, 1991). When precocene 2 (14) was fed to the grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, it was converted to the 2-hydroxymethyl derivative and a demethylated product. These oxidized products are less toxic than the parental compounds and are more readily excreted (Harbome, 1989). 

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