Evolutionary ecological theory predicts that among insect herbivores 'mothers know
best'when selecting a plant to deposit their eggs. Host‐plant selection is usually studied for …

The preference-performance hypothesis posits that the host plant range of plant-feeding
insects is ultimately limited by larval costs associated with feeding on multiple resources …

Most herbivorous insects can only survive on a small subset of the plant species in its
environment. Consequently, adult females have evolved sophisticated sensory recognition …

The preference–performance hypothesis (PPH) states that herbivorous female insects prefer
to oviposit on those host plants that are best for their offspring. Yet, past attempts to show the …

Recent studies with diverse taxa have shown that parents can utilize their experience of the
environment to adapt their offspring's phenotype to the same environmental conditions …

Interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants that are limited in time are
widespread. Therefore, many insect–plant interactions result in a developmental race …

The connection between adult preferences and offspring performance is a long‐standing
issue in understanding the evolutionary and ecological forces that dictate host associations …

We studied the host plant preferences of parents and offspring in the comma butterfly,
Polygonia c-album (L.), from the Stockholm area of central Sweden. Females of the spring …

Herbivorous insects specialized on a narrow set of plants are believed to be better adapted
to their specific hosts. This hypothesis is supported by observations of herbivorous insect …

In most phytophagous insects, the larval diet strongly affects future fitness and in species
that do not feed on plant parts as adults, larval diet is the main source of nitrogen. In many of …