The role of toxins and deterrents in preventing troilus group species (Lepidoptera,
Papilionidae) from feeding on magnoliaceous hosts was investigated using bioassay …

In the greenhouse the Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae L.) does not oviposit on the
Siberian wallflower (Cheiranthus x allionii) or Erysimum scoparium. From the leaves of …

In Southwestern USA, the jimsonweed Datura wrightii and the nocturnal sphinx moth
Manduca sexta form a pollinator-plant and herbivore-plant association. While certain plant …

Fifty compounds related to benzyl acetate were evaluated quantitatively as attractants to the
male oriental fruit fly (Dacus dorsalis) and the male melon fly (Dacus cucurbitae) …

Larvae of a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus L., feed exclusively on plants of the family
Rutaceae, including various Citrus crops. Larvae were strongly stimulated to feed on paper …

Flavonoid pigments have been identified in the swallowtail butterfly Eurytides marcellus and
its larval foodplant Asimina triloba (Annonaceae). Although quercetin 3-glycoside, quercetin …

Abstract The majority (85%) of 394 monarch butterflies sampled from overwintering sites in
Mexico contain the same epoxy cardenolide glycosides, including most conspicuously a …

The behavioural events leading up to oviposition by Pieris rapae and the sensory modalities
involved in host selection by these butterflies are reviewed. The process of host finding and …

Host-plant chemicals stimulating oviposition by a Leguminosae-feeding pierid butterfly
Colias erate poliographys were isolated and identified from one of its primary host plants …

Flavonoid pigments (18) were identified in the wings and body of Melanargia galathea:
tricin, tricin 7-glucoside, tricin 7-diglucoside, tricin 4′-glucoside, luteolin, luteolin 7 …