Exocrine glands release a secretion to the body surface or into a lumen and are likely to be
found in all insect taxa. Their secretions are diverse, serving many physiological, behavioral …

Highlights•Multimodal integration instructs female acceptance behaviour and
remating.•Many, but not all female post-mating behavioural changes depend on male sex …

Living in a social environment requires the ability to respond to specific social stimuli and to
incorporate information obtained from prior interactions into future ones. One of the …

Optimal mating decisions depend on the robust coupling of signal production and
perception because independent changes in either could carry a fitness cost. However …

Baryscapus dioryctriae is an endoparasitic wasp in the pupae of many Pyralidae pests, such
as Dioryctria mendacella, Ostrinia furnacalis, and Chilo suppressalis. To provide requisite …

Male animals usually raise their sperm allocation after detecting sperm competition risk. To
date, only a few studies have investigated the cues used by males to sense and respond to …

Simple Summary Essential oils of the Ocimum spp. comprised of the volatile
phenylpropanoids known for the Oriental fruit fly attractant property. However, fully exposing …

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) play an important role as contact pheromones in insects,
particularly in flies. However, for many fly taxa our understanding of the importance of CHCs …

The New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri has both sexual and parthenogenetic (all-
female) populations. Sexual populations exhibit a scramble competition mating system with …

Many insect species exhibit basal social behaviors such as aggregation, which play
important roles in their feeding and mating ecologies. However, the evolutionary, genetic …