Males of many species of Lepidoptera have scent-organs located on the abdomen, thorax,
legs and wings. Such organs vary from simple scales and hair-tufts to complex eversible …

The Tortricidae includes over 5000 species of small moths that are distributed throughout
the world. The larvae feed as leafrollers, leaf webbers, leafminers, and stem, root, fruit, and …

A critical event in sexual reproduction is location or recruitment of a mate. In a number of
insect groups, the necessary movements in time and space are often mediated by …

Charles Darwin (1871) noted that some of the most strongly selected and rapidly evolving
traits of animals had nothing to do with ecological adaptation or the" struggle for existence" …

Sensory traps affect mate choice when male courtship signals mimic stimuli to which
females respond in other contexts and elicit female behavior that increases male fertilization …

Sex pheromone communication in moths is a well investigated case of mate-finding by
chemical signals, but the evolutionary causes of the great complexity and diversity of these …

Moths are among the most speciose of insect groups, comprising perhaps 140 000 species,
despite their remarkably undiversified and almost exclusively phytophagous larval lifestyle …

Investigating the relative importance of multiple cues for mate choice within a species may
highlight possible mechanisms that led to the diversification of closely related species in the …

This book focuses on chemicals that effect aggregation for mating and elicit sexual behavior
in insects, mites, and ticks, mainly on" sex pheromonal" or" mating" activity. These …

" The greater peacock moths cross hills and valleys in the darkness, with a heavy flight of
wings spotted with inexplicable hieroglyphics. They hasten from the remotest depths of the …