Insect Physiology

This text provides an introductory account of the physiology of insects, intelligible to any reader with an elementary knowledge of biology. It should be of interest to undergraduate students of biology, entomology and agriculture.

The integument; respiration; the circulatory system and associated tissues; digestion; excretion; nutrition and metabolism; growth; reproduction; muscles and movement; the nervous system, sense organs and behaviour; the endocrine system.