▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

1. Insects vary considerably between and within orders, and even within the same genus, in
the degree to which the female's lifetime potential egg complement is mature when she …

Summary 1 Ecologists concerned with life‐history strategies of parasitoid wasps have
recently focused on interspecific variation in the fraction of the maximum potential lifetime …

The oxygen isotope composition of human phosphatic tissues (δ18OP) has great potential
for reconstructing climate and population migration, but this technique has not been applied …

“Pests soon colonize plants that are cultivated extensively, plant species recruit different pest
species in different regions, and associations of insects with plants are often more casual …

The availability of nonhost resource subsidies affects the ability of parasitoids to overcome
egg and time limitation and maximize lifetime reproductive success. We combined field and …

BACKGROUND: Drosophila suzukii became one of the most dangerous pests in fruit crops
and vineyards in Europe since 2009. Lacking knowledge of the overwintering biology under …

Summary 1 Body condition (defined as the relative amount of energy reserves in the body) is
an animal trait with strong ecological implications. In some animal taxa (eg arthropods), the …

Models of host handling decisions and physiologically structured host–parasitoid population
dynamics make diverging assumptions, untested as of this writing, about the allocation rules …

Anastatus bifasciatus (Geoffroy) is the most widespread native egg parasitoid of the invasive
agricultural pest Halyomorpha halys (Stål) in Europe and considered as promising …