Progress toward understanding the dynamics of ancient plant-insect associations has
addressed major patterns in the ecology and evolution of herbivory and pollination. This …

Myriad branches in the tree of life are intertwined through ecological relationships. Biologists
have long hypothesized that intimate symbioses between lineages can influence …

It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host
plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are typically asynchronous. Recent …

An updated and extensively revised checklist of the arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican
Republic and Haiti) is presented 11 years after the publication of the original in 2008. It …

Studies investigating the evolution of flowering plants have long focused on isolating
mechanisms such as pollinator specificity. Some recent studies have proposed a role for …

Taxa within diverse lineages select and transport exogenous materials for the purposes of
camouflage. This adaptive behavior also occurs in insects, most famously in green lacewing …

Background Ditrysia comprise close to 99% of all butterflies and moths. The evolutionary
relationships among the ditrysian superfamilies have received considerable attention in …

Chalcidoidea are a megadiverse group of mostly parasitoid wasps of major ecological and
economical importance that are omnipresent in almost all extant terrestrial habitats. The …

Confocal laser scanning microscopy is an essential analytical tool in biological, biomedical,
and material sciences, integrating microscope manufacturing technology, optical-electronic …

Insect parasites and parasitoids are a major component of terrestrial food webs. For
parasitoids, categorization is whether feeding activity is located inside or outside its host, if …