The main contemporary challenge for agriculture is to meet the food demands of the
increasing world population while becoming more environmentally sustainable. One way to …

Aphidophagous hoverflies forage according two different host-finding mechanisms: they
forage for suitable food sources (for their energy-expensive hovering flight, and for protein to …

This is the first book focusing on the chemoecology of insect eggs and egg deposition. It
covers a wide range of different issues including herbivorous and carnivorous insects, social …

Maternal effects are increasingly recognized as important drivers of population dynamics
and determinants of evolutionary trajectories. Recently, there has been a proliferation of …

Abstract Episyrphus balteatus DeGeer (Diptera, Syrphidae) is an abundant and efficient
aphid-specific predator. We tested the electroantennographic (EAG) response of this syrphid …

School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia E-
mail: d. marshall1@ uq. edu. au, richard. allen@ uq. edu. au, a. crean@ uq. edu. auAbstract …

Efficient pest control using conservation strategies requires sound knowledge of the
dynamics of the pest and its natural enemies (NE). But the role of natural regulation under …

This book explores the ecological research required for the development of strategies to
manage insect pests with particular emphasis on the scientific principles involved in the …

The fitness consequences of feeding on different aphids (apple, blackberry, dock, elder,
nettle, pea, rose and sycamore aphids) for two species of generalist insect predator (the …

The foxglove aphid, Aulacorthum solani (Kaltenbach)(Hemiptera: Aphididae), has become a
significant pest in horticulture as it can build high populations from 10 to 18° C, when no …