▪ Abstract Parasitoids in the insect order Diptera include an estimated 16,000 species, or
approximately 20% of the total number of species with this life-style. Parasitoids in this order …

All animals face the problem of finding resources for growth, maintenance and reproduction.
Foraging in a heterogeneous (ie patchy) environment requires seemingly complex …

Lifetime patterns of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism were compared in starved and
sucrose‐fed adults of the parasitoid Macrocentrus grandii (Goidanich)(Hymenoptera …

Life history theory predicts that a nontrivial proportion of parasitoids should exhaust their egg
supply during their lifetime. We reviewed the literature on egg limitation in parasitoids and …

As most parasitoids are time limited, they usually die before they have laid all their eggs. In
such cases, optimal foraging theory predicts that female parasitoids will adopt behavioral …

▪ Abstract Groups of two or more consexual conspecific adults of many kinds of nonsocial
insects have been observed to form at feeding, mating, ovipositional, or sheltering sites …

Although there is widespread agreement that the cost of oviposition underlies selective
oviposition in insects, there is no consensus regarding which factors mediate the cost of …

Insect parasitoids and insect herbivores with parasitoid-like biologies (eg, some fruit flies
and seed beetles) deposit eggs in or upon hosts that represent a discrete resource for the …

Parasitoids and their hosts are linked by intimate and harmful interactions that make them
well suited to analyze fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes with regard to life …

One of the most important relationships in parasitoid behavioural ecology is that between
adult female size and fitness. However, surprisingly few studies have attempted to assess …