The Role of Host Selection in the Ecology of Phytophagous Insects

1953 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Thorsteinson
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Selection ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Phytophagous Insects ◽  
Phytophagous Insect ◽  
Ecological Significance ◽  
Plant Selection ◽  
Suitable Host

It is a commonplace entomological observation that each phytophagous insect is restricted in its feeding to a small fraction only of the plant species that grow in any area. This phenomenon is generally referred to as “host selection”. The ecological significance of host plant selection among insects is manifest principally in an effect on the geographical distribution of insect species since phytophagous insects can occur only where suitable host plants are available.

The role of tending ants in host plant selection and egg parasitism of two facultative myrmecophilous butterflies

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 (11) ◽  
pp. 913-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bächtold ◽  
Estevão Alves-Silva ◽  
Lucas A. Kaminski ◽  
Kleber Del-Claro
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Selection ◽  
Egg Parasitism

Role of chemical cues in cabbage stink bug host plant selection

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 103994
Author(s):  
Silvana Piersanti ◽  
Manuela Rebora ◽  
Luisa Ederli ◽  
Stefania Pasqualini ◽  
Gianandrea Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Chemical Cues ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Stink Bug ◽  
Plant Selection

Role of Enemy-Free Space and Plant Quality in Host-Plant Selection by Willow Beetles

Ecology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Denno ◽  
Stig Larsson ◽  
Karen L. Olmstead
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Plant Quality ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Selection ◽  
Enemy Free Space

A CELLULOSE-HYDROLYZING FACTOR IN APHID SALIVA

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean B. Adams ◽  
Margaret E. Drew
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Carboxymethyl Cellulose ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Selection ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insect Culture ◽  
Vitis Sp

Fifty-eight species of aphids from a wide range of host plants, one leafhopper species from Vitis sp., and a psyllid from Alnus rugosa have been examined for their salivary ability to hydrolyse carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) substrates. Most of these insects, when allowed to probe and secrete saliva into CMC-filled parafilm "sachets", reduced the CMC to glucose and sometimes to glucose and cellobiose. The presence of this cellulose-hydrolyzing factor varied among species, and within species according to morph, season, and host plant from which the insect culture had been derived. The behavior of the insects on the sachets resembled the characteristic "test probing" of aphids described by many authors. It is suggested that salivary components secreted during such test probes play a role in host plant selection and subsequent exploitation.

Herbivore host plant selection: whitefly learns to avoid host plants that harbour predators of her offspring

Oecologia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Nomikou ◽  
Arne Janssen ◽  
Maurice W. Sabelis
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Host Plant Selection ◽  
Plant Selection
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