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Finding and Accepting Host Plants

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Chemical Ecology of Insects

Abstract

The plant-based resource units insects use for refugia, mating sites, and food vary in two fundamental ways. First, their distributions in time and space are usually patchy, as plants themselves assume distributions dictated by the patchiness of suitable soils and growing conditions. Second, the resources offered by plants vary qualitatively as judged by relative contributions to the fitness of the individual user. As one example, trees with rough rather than smooth bark promote higher survival of gypsy moth larvae (Lymantria dispar) (Campbell et al., 1975; Barbosa, 1978), while larvae fed on white and red oak foliage experience greater survival, develop more rapidly and produce more fecund adults than do those fed on the foliage of most other tree species (Hough and Pimentel, 1978; Barbosa, 1978). The quality of resources offered by a given plant varies widely with factors such as plant tissue, growth stage, and plant nutritional states (see Scriber, Chapter 7).

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Miller, J.R., Strickler, K.L. (1984). Finding and Accepting Host Plants. In: Bell, W.J., Cardé, R.T. (eds) Chemical Ecology of Insects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3368-3_6

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