Reproductive Behavior of Insects: Individuals and Populations

Abstract

The book contains 11 chapters by various authors covering individual perspectives on insect reproductive behaviour, the evolution of insect mating systems (the impact of individual selectionist thinking), mate finding (selection on sensory cues), host location and oviposition on animals, host location and oviposition on plants, host location and oviposition in tephritid fruit flies, host selection in the Heliothinae, reproduction and host selection by aphids (the importance of 'rendezvous' hosts), oviposition and the defence of brood in social wasps, competition in dung-breeding insects and larval contribution to fitness in leaf-eating insects.