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List of works by Spencer T. Behmer

A correlation between macronutrient balancing and insect host-plant range: evidence from the specialist caterpillar Spodoptera exempta (Walker).

scientific article

A dietary test of putative deleterious sterols for the aphid Myzus persicae

scientific article

Animal behaviour: feeding the superorganism.

scientific article published on May 2009

Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology

scientific article published on 2 May 2022

Behavioural correlates of phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart chemoreceptor numbers in locusts

scientific article published in August 2004

Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches

scientific article

Diet micronutrient balance matters: How the ratio of dietary sterols/steroids affects development, growth and reproduction in two lepidopteran insects.

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Dietary sterols/steroids and the generalist caterpillar Helicoverpa zea: Physiology, biochemistry and midgut gene expression

scientific article published on August 4, 2012

Effects of diet on titratable acid-base excretion in grasshoppers.

scientific article published in January 2000

Effects of protein and carbohydrate on an insect herbivore: the vista from a fitness landscape.

scientific article published on 27 July 2014

Evaluation of a Microbial Inhibitor in Artificial Diets of a Generalist Caterpillar, Heliothis virescens

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Evolving resistance to obesity in an insect

scholarly article

Importance of dietary nitrogen and carbohydrates to survival, growth, and reproduction in adults of the grasshopper Ageneotettix deorum (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

scientific article published in October 1997

Insect herbivore nutrient regulation.

scientific article published on January 2009

Microbial symbionts shape the sterol profile of the xylem-feeding woodwasp, Sirex noctilio.

scientific article published on 8 December 2012

Not just the usual suspects: insect herbivore populations and communities are associated with multiple plant nutrients.

scientific article published in May 2012

Nutrient regulation in relation to diet breadth: a comparison of Heliothis sister species and a hybrid

scientific article published on June 2006

Omnivory in predatory lady beetles is widespread and driven by an appetite for sterols

scientific article published in 2021

Plant phloem sterol content: forms, putative functions, and implications for phloem-feeding insects

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Plant sterols and host plant suitability for generalist and specialist caterpillars

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Revisiting macronutrient regulation in the polyphagous herbivore Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): New insights via nutritional geometry

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Seasonality directs contrasting food collection behavior and nutrient regulation strategies in ants

scientific article

Stability of AtVSP in the insect digestive canal determines its defensive capability.

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

State-dependent learned valuation drives choice in an invertebrate

scientific article

Sterol/steroid metabolism and absorption in a generalist and specialist caterpillar: effects of dietary sterol/steroid structure, mixture and ratio.

scientific article

The influence of proline on diet selection: sex-specific feeding preferences by the grasshoppers Ageneotettix deorum and Phoetaliotes nebrascensis (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

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The nutritional significance of sterol metabolic constraints in the generalist grasshopper Schistocerca americana.

scientific article published in April 1999