The flight of an insect is of a very complicated and extremely energy-demanding nature.
Wingbeat frequency may differ between various species but values up to 1000 Hz have been …

From a metabolic point of view, three different types of insect flight muscles can be distinguished:
muscles that degrade only carbohydrates, those depending only on fatty acids, and a …

Most reviews of lipid metabolism in insects have covered all classes of lipid compounds.
Since lipids are generally defined as substances poorly soluble in water but soluble in organic …

During flight, the proline concentration in the flight muscles of Leptinotarsa decemlineata
decreases sharply while that of alanine shows a proportional increase. In view of the known …

Peptides with adipokinetic (and usually carbohydrate-mobilizing) potency have been
demonstrated in various insects, including Locusta migratoria. Schistocerca gregaria. Manduca …

… HOUBEN NMD and BEENAKKERS AM TH. (1975) The influence of haemolymph
carbohydrate concentration on the release of adipokinetic hormone during locust flight. …

… and BEENAKKERS AM TH. (1977) Characterization of the adipokinetic and hyperglycaemic
… HOUBEN NMD and BEENAKKERS AM TH. 0978) Dynamics of energetic substrate …

… and BEENAKKERS AM TH. (1979) Effects of the adipokinetic hormone on the release
and turnover of haemolymph diglycerides and on the formation of the diglyceride-transporting …

Mitochondria isolated from the flight muscles of the Colorado beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata
show high rates of respiration for proline and pyruvate. The rate of oxidation of Krebs …

Glycogen reserves in the fat body of Locusta migratoria decrease dramatically during the first
two hours of flight. In fat body of rested locusts only 10% of glycogen phosphorylase occurs …