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Croton High School students have used a program, connected to the University of Illinois, to test insect samples.

Visual stimulation consisted of the sight of crowd-reared locusts, while contact chemical stimulation was a dichloromethane extract of cuticular hydrocarbons from gregarious nymphs applied to the perch of the test insect.

This generic detector fulfils the requirements for a simplified bioassay for early screening of test insect repellents.

The behaviour of the test insect was recorded on an event recorder in real time for 3 mn after introduction into the arena.

They found that all of their test insects acted similarly, running away at an angle from the direction of the threat.

The position of test insects in the treatment chamber largely affected their heating rate, with a position closer to the surface of the heat block providing a better temperature match between test insects and the HBS.

Mechanical stimulation was provided by showering test insects with millet seeds, thereby excluding the possibility of contact chemical self-stimulation by repeated contact with the same objects.

The validated computer model was further used to predict the effects of heating rates, the position of test insects and the addition of gases on the block and air temperature distributions.

Test insects included laboratory-reared O. furnacalis originating from Malaysia, a Bt-susceptible laboratory colony of O. nubilalis maintained at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and an out-group consisting of the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F ., from Louisiana which represents a different genus from the same family.

Healthy and uniform size laboratory-reared larvae of test insects were used for bioassay studies.

Since A. bipunctata has four larval instars, the test insects were exposed four times 24 h each.