Highlights•Host race formation is common in hymenopteran parasitoids.•Key innovations
have not yet been connected to radiation events in hymenopteran parasitoids.•Dynamic host …

We report the first record of the larvae of a species in the butterfly genus Ochlodes
(Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on rice and causing notable damage. Based on the …

A key question in insect community ecology is whether parasitoid assemblages are
structured by the food plants of their herbivore hosts. Tritrophic communities centred on oak …

Foliage-feeding wild caterpillars have been collected and reared year-round by 1–30 rural
resident parataxonomists in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern …

Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for
biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model …

Two new European species of Microgaster are described from reared material. Microgaster
nervosae sp. nov. parasitizes Agonopterix species (Depressariidae) on Ulex and Genista in …

We apply a molecular approach to quantify the level of hymenopteran parasitoids infestation
in the larvae of the marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia), a declining butterfly species, in …

Large areas of forests are annually damaged or destroyed by outbreaking insect pests.
Understanding the factors that trigger and terminate such population eruptions has become …

The study aimed to investigate the seasonal presence and characterization of the group of
butterflies (abundance, richness and biodiversity) in the agroecosystem of Brassicaceae …