INSECT POPULATION REGULATION

Insect Population Regulation

Insect Population Regulation

Weather and climate affect the physiology and the behavior of the insects. Things such as humidity, rain, etc have a huge impact on insects. These things affect the insects as individual; it is independent of the population density of the insects. (Gutierrez & Huffaker 1999)

Changes in the population of insects are caused by things like climate change and change in the supply of food, i.e. if the food is available in abundant supply at a place then the population of the insects are bound to grow there. Another factor, which plays a huge part in determining the population of the insects is the natural enemies of those insects, the changes in the physical or the biological environment of the natural enemies also create a huge affect on the population of the insects. Again, the alterations in the food availability or the existence of the natural enemies are also dependent largely on the weather changes, so change in weather will directly or indirectly affect the population of the insects. (Gaud Slobodochikoff, Peter1984)

Insect responses to climate changes can be complex and sometimes very uncertain, because population of insects is directly affected by the change in climate and indirectly through the affect of climate change on the natural enemies and food supply. Changes in weather will not be uniform throughout the year. Positive changes in the weather e.g. sufficient amount of rain and sun, nice breeze, etc or what we can say good weather will have equally positive changes on the population of insects, because then the insects would not be hurt and they would have the chance to live and increase their population at the same time. Weather would also affect things like Supply of food, in a positive way, there will be much more ...