Evolution of Insect Pests

Evolution of Insect Pests
Author: Ke Chung Kim
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1993-05-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471600770

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Reflects on insect pests' evolution by evaluating existing theories, documenting case studies of diverse pest species and presenting new concepts regarding the problem of variation and implications for pest management strategies. Leading experts offer contributions which deal with variations in genetic markers and ecologically meaningful traits as well as future perspectives in entomology and biosystematics.

Evolution of the Insects

Evolution of the Insects
Author: David Grimaldi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2005-05-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 110726877X

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Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.

Planet of the Bugs

Planet of the Bugs
Author: Scott Richard Shaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 022616361X

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Chronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.

Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation

Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation
Author: Kelley Jean Tilmon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520251326

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"This volume captures the state-of-the-art in the study of insect-plant interactions, and marks the transformation of the field into evolutionary biology. The contributors present integrative reviews of uniformly high quality that will inform and inspire generations of academic and applied biologists. Their presentation together provides an invaluable synthesis of perspectives that is rare in any discipline."--Brian D. Farrell, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University "Tilmon has assembled a truly wonderful and rich volume, with contributions from the lion's share of fine minds in evolution and ecology of herbivorous insects. The topics comprise a fascinating and deep coverage of what has been discovered in the prolific recent decades of research with insects on plants. Fascinating chapters provide deep analyses of some of the most interesting research on these interactions. From insect plant chemistry, behavior, and host shifting to phylogenetics, co-evolution, life-history evolution, and invasive plant-insect interaction, one is hard pressed to name a substantial topic not included. This volume will launch a hundred graduate seminars and find itself on the shelf of everyone who is anyone working in this rich landscape of disciplines."--Donald R. Strong, Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis "Seldom have so many excellent authors been brought together to write so many good chapters on so many important topics in organismic evolutionary biology. Tom Wood, always unassuming and inspired by living nature, would have been amazed and pleased by this tribute."--Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles

The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles
Author: Fritz Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1986-11-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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Papers from a Symposium at the International Congress of Entomology Held in Hamburg. With contributions by numerous experts

Insects and Plants

Insects and Plants
Author: Pierre Jolivet
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2023-07-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000951162

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Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great interest to agriculturists and horticulturists, is briefly explained without the complexities detailed in the massive literature on this topic. Many other subjects are discussed, such as the memory of adult butterflies, which enables them to return to their host plants in the case of the polyphagous species. The book is seeded with such thought-provoking discussions as prostitution among the orchids and botanical indigestion in some plants.

The Evolution of Insects

The Evolution of Insects
Author: Philip S. Callahan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1972
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

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Chemical Defenses of Arthropods

Chemical Defenses of Arthropods
Author: Murry Blum
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323145558

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Chemical Defenses of Arthropods charts the significant progress in the study of chemical defenses in arthropods, a rapidly expanding area of chemical ecology. The book groups the defensive compounds secreted by arthropods based on their main functionalities and sequentially lists them according to their carbon numbers. Organized into 19 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the defensive exudates of arthropods and how arthropods have exploited these compounds to deter the ubiquitous and omnipresent predators around them. The next chapters introduce the reader to the defensive compounds produced in the exocrine glands of arthropods, ranging from alcohols and ketones to hydrocarbons, carboxylic acids, esters, 1,4-quinones and hydroquinones, lactones, phenols, steroids, and proteinaceous venoms. The book also discusses the taxonomic value of arthropod defensive compounds, with emphasis on factors affecting the composition of defensive secretions and taxonomic correlations that utilize them. Later chapters focus on arthropod biosynthesis of exocrine compounds, how insects tolerate the presence of plant toxins in their diets, and identified defensive compounds in arthropods. The book concludes with an analysis of the properties and characteristic distributions of arthropod natural products, along with their adaptiveness as defensive agents. This book is a valuable resource for biologists and chemists.

Social Insects: Their Origin And Evolution

Social Insects: Their Origin And Evolution
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1994
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9788171412563

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Contents: The Scope and Meaning of the Social Among the Insects, The Origin of the Terebrantia and Aculeata, The Evolution of Wasps, The Evolution of Bees, The Evolution of Ants, The Evolution of Termites, Polymorphism, Polymorphism (continued), The Social Medium and Torphallaxis, The Evolution of the Guests and Parasites of the Social Insects, The Evolution of the Social Parasites, Conclusions.