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Journal of Experimental Biology 57,755-763 (1972)
Published by Company of Biologists 1972

The Control of Changes in Peripheral Sensilla Associated with Feeding in Locusta Migratoria (L.)

E. A. BERNAYS ¹ and R. F. CHAPMAN ¹

¹ Centre for Overseas Pest Research, College House Wrights Lane, London W8 5S£

1. The electrical resistance across the tips of the maxillary palps is not affected by stimulation of the palps, but increases to the normal level found after feeding as a result of distension of the foregut with agar or injection of corpus cardiacum homogenates into the haemolymph.

2. No increase in resistance occurs if the posterior pharyngeal nerves or the frontal connectives are cut.

3. It is inferred that distension of the foregut stimulates stretch receptors which, acting via the posterior pharyngeal nerves, the frontal connectives and the brain, cause the release of hormone from the storage lobes of the corpora cardiaca. This hormone acts on the terminal sensilla of the palps, causing them to close and so increasing the resistance across the palps.

4. Release of the diuretic hormone is controlled via the same pathway.