SpringerLink
Log in

The chemical sensitivity of the legs of the blow-fly, Calliphora Vomitoria Linn., to various sugars

  • Published:
Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Bibliography

  1. Forel, A. (1908): The senses of insects. Translated by Macleod Yearsley, London xiv, 324pp.

  2. Frisch, K. v. (1927): Vers. über d. Geschmackssinn d. Bienen. Naturwiss. 15, 321–327.

    Google Scholar 

  3. (1928): Versuche über d. Geschmackssinn d. Bienen. Ebenda, 16, 307–315.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Glaser, B. W. (1923): The effect of food on longevity and reproduction in flies. J. of Exper. Zool. 38, 383–412.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Kunze, G. (1927): Einige Versuche über den Geschmackssinn der Honigbiene. Zool. Jb., Abt. Allg. Zool. u. Physiol. 44, 287–314.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Minnich, D. E. (1921): An experimental study of the tarsal chemoreceptors of two nymphalid butterflies. J. of Exper. Zool. 33, 173–203.

    Google Scholar 

  7. (1922 a): The chemical sensitivity of the tarsi of the red admiral butterfly, Pyrameis atalanta Linn. Ebenda 35, 57–81.

    Google Scholar 

  8. (1922 b): A quantitative study of tarsal sensitivity to solutions of saccharose, in the red admiral butterfly, Pyrameis atalanta. Linn. Ebenda 36, 445–457.

    Google Scholar 

  9. (1924): The olfactory sense of the cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae Linn., an experimental study. Ebenda 39, 339–356.

    Google Scholar 

  10. (1926): The chemical sensitivity of the tarsi of certain muscid flies, 1926. Biol. Bull. Mar. Biol. Labor. Wood's Hole 51, 166–178.

    Google Scholar 

  11. (1929): The chemical senses of insects. Quart. Rev. Biol. 4, 100–112.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Paul, T. (1921): Physikalische Chemie der Lebensmittel. V. Der Süßungsgrad der Süßstoffe. Z. Elektrochem. 27, 539–546.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Przibram, H. (1909): Die biologische Versuchsanstalt in Wien. 3. Das lebende Material und seine Pflege. Z. biol. Technik 1, 329–362.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Schaller, A. (1926): Sinnesphysiologische und psychologische Untersuchungen an Wasserkäfern und Fischen. Z. vergl. Physiol. 4, 370–464.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Skramlik, E. v. (1926): Handbuch der Physiologie der niederen Sinne. Bd. l : Die Physiologie des Geruchs- und Geschmackssinnes, viii, 532 pp.

  16. Verlaine, L. (1927): Le déterminisme du déroulement de la trompe et la physiologie du goût chez les lépidoptères (Pieris rapae Linn.). Ann. et Bull. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 67, 147–182.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Will, F. (1885): Das Geschmacksorgan der Insekten. Z. wiss. Zool. 42, 674–707.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Zoology, University of Minnesota, USA

    Dwight Elmer Minnich

  2. Zoological Institute at Munich, Germany

    Dwight Elmer Minnich

Authors
  1. Dwight Elmer Minnich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Minnich, D.E. The chemical sensitivity of the legs of the blow-fly, Calliphora Vomitoria Linn., to various sugars. Z. f. vergl. Physiologie 11, 1–55 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339070

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339070

Keywords

Search

Navigation