Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

Over the past 40 years, the SIP meetings have played a central role in the development of the field of insect-plant relationships, providing both a show-case for current research as well as a forum for the airing and development of influential new ideas. The 10th symposium, held 4-10 July 1998, in Oxford, followed that tradition. The present volume includes a representative selection of fully refereed papers from the meeting, plus a listing of the titles of all presentations. The volume includes reviews of major areas within the subject, along with detailed experimental studies. Topics covered include central neural and chemosensory bases of host plant recognition, integrative studies of insect behaviour, tritrophic interactions, plant defences, insect life histories, plant growth responses, microbial partners in insect-plant associations, and genetic bases of host plant associations. The book provides a key source for students and research workers in the field of insect-plant relationships. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Insects and plants: two worlds come together....Pages 1-6 Dynamic representation of odours by oscillating neural assemblies....Pages 7-18 Chemo-discriminatory neurones in the sub-oesophageal ganglion of Locusta migratoria ....Pages 19-28 Specialist deterrent chemoreceptors enable Pieris caterpillars to discriminate between chemically different deterrents....Pages 29-35 Olfactory responses and sensilla morphology of the blackcurrant leaf midge Dasineura tetensi ....Pages 37-50 Experience-based food consumption by larvae of Pieris rapae : addiction to glucosinolates?....Pages 51-58 Role of visual cues and interaction with host odour during the host-finding behaviour of the cabbage moth....Pages 59-65 Integrating nutrition: a geometrical approach....Pages 67-82 Absence of food-aversion learning by a polyphagous scarab, Popillia japonica , following intoxication by geranium, Pelargonium × hortorum ....Pages 83-88 Examining the hierarchy threshold model in a no-choice feeding assay....Pages 89-95 Anomalous stylet punctures of phloem sieve elements by aphids....Pages 97-103 Acceptability of different species of Brassicaceae as hosts for the cabbage aphid....Pages 105-109 Salivation into sieve elements in relation to plant chemistry: the case of the aphid Sitobion fragariae and the wheat, Triticum aestivum ....Pages 111-114 Aphid responses to non-host epicuticular lipids....Pages 115-123 Effects of Brassica oleracea waxblooms on predation and attachment by Hippodamia convergens ....Pages 125-130 Are herbivore-induced plant volatiles reliable indicators of herbivore identity to foraging carnivorous arthropods?....Pages 131-142 Active defence of herbivorous hosts against parasitism: Adult parasitoid mortality risk involved in attacking a concealed stemboring host....Pages 143-148 Induction of cotton extrafloral nectar production in response to herbivory does not require a herbivore-specific elicitor....Pages 149-154 Flowers in tri-trophic systems: mechanisms allowing selective exploitation by insect natural enemies for conservation biological control....Pages 155-161 Wound-induced increases in the glucosinolate content of oilseed rape and their effect on subsequent herbivory by a crucifer specialist....Pages 163-167 Pyrrolizidine alkaloid distribution in Senecio jacobaea rosettes minimises losses to generalist feeding....Pages 169-173 The population ecology of Amorbus Dallas (Hemiptera: Coreidae) species in Australia....Pages 175-182 A galling aphid furnishes its home with a built-in pipeline to the host food supply....Pages 183-186 Vive la variance: a functional oviposition theory for insect herbivores....Pages 187-194 The assimilation and allocation of nutrients by symbiotic and aposymbiotic pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum ....Pages 195-201 How nutritionally imbalanced is phloem sap for aphids?....Pages 203-210 It’s about time: the evidence for host plant-mediated selection in the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella , and its implications for fitness trade-offs in phytophagous insects....Pages 211-225 Behavioural correlates of genetic divergence due to host specialization in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum ....Pages 227-232 Using hybrid and backcross larvae of Papilio canadensis and Papilio glaucus to detect induced phytochemical resistance in hybrid poplar trees experimentally defoliated by gypsy moths....Pages 233-236 Ostrinia spp. in Japan: their host plants and sex pheromones....Pages 237-244 Genetic basis for established and novel host plant use in a herbivorous ladybird beetle, Epilachna vigintioctomaculata ....Pages 245-250 Host-plant choice and larval growth in the cinnabar moth: do pyrrolizidine alkaloids play a role?....Pages 251-257 It’s all in the neurones....Pages 259-265 Back Matter....Pages 267-290