… (highly specialized pollen beetles associated with flowers of … of evolution of their larval/host-plant
associations. Evidence from … reconstruction of larval/host-plant associations, suggested …

… data indicate a possible role of pollen in oviposition site selection by female pollen beetles.
… feeding also depends, particularly for specialists, on the host plant species and its mode of …

… are highly specialized pollen beetles associated as larvae with … evolution of their larval‐host‐plant
association. Evidence from … known evolution of the host plants in Euro‐Mediterranean …

… During flowering, the beetles are attracted by the yellow colour of host plants (Nolte, 1959) …
However, the fact that the beetles are able to find their host plants in the very early bud-stage…

… Brassicaceae and ten other plant families (Kjaer 1974). The presence of glucosinolates might
partly explain how the pollen beetle finds its host plants. Pollen beetles are attracted to the …

… the pollen beetle is a specialist for oviposition, important variations in secondary metabolites
that are typical of its host plant … poor and high-quality host plants are probably discriminated. …

… But after finding the host habitat and landing on the host plant, a … with plant odors in nature,
we further investigated host stage preference for living immature stages of the pollen beetle in …

… ), to the pollen beetle and to determine whether the host plant influences host finding
success of parasitoids and/or their species composition. We demonstrate that plant species …

… Although breeding for OSR resistance to pollen beetle damage has thus far received little
attention, different cultivars vary in their suitability as host plants, and in their tolerance of attack…

… Pollen beetles show clear host plant preferences that can be exploited in trap cropping
strategies (Cook et al. 2006), which aim to concentrate the pest on attractive trap crop plants …