Chemical signals are omnipresent in sexual communication in the vast majority of living
organisms. The traditional paradigm was that their main purpose in sexual behaviour was to …

▪ Abstract Insects of the order Hymenoptera are biologically and economically important
members of natural and agro ecosystems and exhibit diverse biologies, mating systems, and …

For the past 40 years, the ecology and evolution of plant secondary metabolites have been
major foci of investigation. We use one class of secondary metabolites, the terpenes, as a …

Spiders and their mating systems are useful study subjects with which to investigate
questions of widespread interest about sexual selection, pre‐and post‐copulatory mate …

An activity pattern is the change in levels of a particular activity through time. Activity pattern
data form the basis of much of behavioral ecology for two simple reasons. First, they tell us …

Considerable interspecific diversity exists among bees in the rendezvous sites where males
search for females and in the behaviours employed by males in their efforts to secure …

Males of many species choose their mate according to the female's reproductive status, and
there is now increasing evidence that male fitness can depend on this discrimination …

Since the 1970s it has been known that the nursery pollinator Hadena bicruris is attracted to
the flowers of its most important host plant, Silene latifolia, by their scent. Here we identified …

Der vorliegende Katalog umfasst sämtliche weltweit beschriebenen Taxa (3001
Beschreibungen einschließlich Synonyme und Umbenennungen) der Bienengattung …

Covering: up to September 2022 Orchids are renowned not only for their diversity of floral
forms, but also for their many and often highly specialised pollination strategies. Volatile …