ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|15 pages

Diets of Living Things

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

Food Selection Among Phytophagous Insects

chapter Chapter 3|12 pages

Problems of Food Selection

chapter Chapter 4|6 pages

Biological Weed Control

chapter Chapter 5|19 pages

How Food Selection Works

chapter Chapter 6|15 pages

Carnivorous Plants

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Myrmecophilous Plants

chapter Chapter 8|6 pages

Epizoic Symbiosis

chapter Chapter 9|6 pages

The Galls

chapter Chapter 10|10 pages

Fungus Gardens

chapter Chapter 11|3 pages

Entomological Manna

chapter Chapter 12|31 pages

Pollinating Insects

chapter Chapter 13|4 pages

Entomochorous Plants

chapter Chapter 14|7 pages

Coevolution

chapter Chapter 15|7 pages

Conclusions