Green Lacewing Is Attracted to Volatile Organic Compounds and Essential Oils Extracted from Leaves.

Plant herbivore interactions have long been recognized as a complex interplay influenced by various factors, including plant volatile emissions. Understanding the role of these volatiles in mediating plant predator interactions is crucial for developing sustainable pest management strategies. This study investigated the olfactory preferences of larvae for volatiles emitted by leaves, focusing on both seedlings and essential oils (EOs).

Tolerance Mitigates Gall Effects When Susceptible Plants Fail to Elicit Induced Defense.

Variations in plant genotypes and phenotypes are expressed in ways that lead to the development of defensive abilities against herbivory. Induced defenses are mechanisms that affect herbivore insect preferences and performance. We evaluated the performance of resistant and susceptible phenotypes of (Fabaceae) against attacks by the gall-inducing insect (Diptera).

Final instar larva of Acanthagrion truncatum Selys, 1876 (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae).

Here we describe the final instar larvae of Acanthagrion truncatum Selys, 1876, the 16th described for the genus. We compare the diagnostic characters of A. truncatum with other species of the Group II.

Plant-galling insect interactions: a data set of host plants and their gall-inducing insects for the Cerrado.

Recent decades have seen increased research interest in the processes and mechanisms related to insect gall richness and host plants. The data set provided here includes 968 records of interactions between galling insects and host plants for the Cerrado biome. The data set comprises 505 species of 222 genera and 67 families of host plants.