| egg attachment of the asparagus beetle crioceris asparagi to the crystalline waxy surface of asparagus officinalis. | plant surfaces covered with crystalline epicuticular waxes are known to be anti-adhesive, hardly wettable and preventing insect attachment. but there are insects that are capable of gluing their eggs to these surfaces by means of proteinaceous secretions. in this study, we analysed the bonding region between the eggs of crioceris asparagi and the plant surface of asparagus officinalis using light and cryo-scanning electron microscopy. the wettability of the plant surface by egg secretion was com ... | 2010 | 19923132 |
| metabolism during embryonic and metamorphic development of insects. | 1. for species of insects that deposit their eggs on foliage, as leptinotarsa decemlineata, crioceris asparagi, and anasa tristis, the rates of metabolism as measured by the co(2) output or the oxygen intake indicate, during embryonic development, a short formative period, followed by a very active extended growth. those species that deposit their eggs in the soil, as cotinis nitida and popillia japonica, show that the formative period is greatly extended and the growth period similarly lengthen ... | 1925 | 19872155 |