Generalist flowers and phytophagous beetles in two tropical canopy trees: resources for multitudes

F Ødegaard, D Frame - Taxon, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
beetle species between the two plant species suggests that the fauna is fairly general in
terms of host … of our results to phytophagous beetle and host plant evolution. The combined …

The chemical basis of host-plant recognition in a specialized bee pollinator

P Milet-Pinheiro, M Ayasse, HEM Dobson… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - Springer
host flowers. We conclude that highly specific floral volatiles play a key role … host-flower
recognition by this pollen-specialist bee, and discuss our findings into the broader context of host

Specific distinction by allozymic data of sympatric sibling species of the pollenbeetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)

P Audisio, A de Biase, G Antonini, M Oliverio… - Italian Journal of …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… An allozyme analysis was performed, combined with field data on insect/host-plant … central
and southern Europe, on different larval host plants, although they rarely show synchronous …

Colour choice behaviour in the pollen beetle Meligethes aeneus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

TF Doering, M Skellern, N Watts… - Physiological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… select plants mainly from the crop edge, where beetle density is … Easy to use, accurate
monitoring traps for pollen beetles … the exploitation of host-finding behaviour in the pollen beetle, …

Insecticidal and repellent activity of selected essential oils against of the pollen beetle, Meligethes aeneus (Fabricius) adults

R Pavela - Industrial Crops and Products, 2011 - Elsevier
… It is thus likely that pollen beetle's sensitivity to some non-host plant essential oil volatiles may
lead to … The behaviour of pollen beetle in response to some essential oils was explored by …

Effects of insecticide application on parasitism rates of pollen beetle larvae (Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius)) by tersilochine parasitoids

M Brandes, U Heimbach, B Ulber - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2018 - Springer
… winter oilseed rape on parasitization of pollen beetle larvae by T. … Parasitism of pollen beetle
larvae by T. heterocerus was … trials did not affect parasitization of pollen beetle larvae by T. …

Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous.

D Peris Cerdán, CC Labandeira, E Barrón… - iScience, 2020, num …, 2020 - diposit.ub.edu
… -beetle to an angiosperm-beetle mutualism by a simple shift of a host plant from a
gymnosperm to an angiosperm. The gymnosperm hosts (as pollen) were cycads, ginkgoa- …

Convergent evolution and adaptive radiation of beetle-pollinated angiosperms

P Bernhardt - Pollen and pollination, 2000 - Springer
… of shifts among allied plant species (… of beetle-pollination, compared to predatory beetle-host
plant interactions, there may be value in phylogenetic treatments of beetlepollinated plants

Pollen specialists are more endangered than non-specialised bees even though they collect pollen on flowers of non-endangered plants

P Bogusch, E Bláhová, J Horák - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2020 - Springer
… Secondarily, we consulted lists of host plants in several studies where specialisation was
not confirmed. In our study, we used the division of pollen specialisation from Kuhlmann and …

Evolutionary rates in the adaptive radiation of beetles on plants

BD Farrell, AS Sequeira - Evolution, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… All analyses yielded higher estimates for changes in host plant group used than for plant
tissue used and even higher still than those for changes in larval habit (either with three or two …