Insect populations including butterflies are declining worldwide, and they are becoming an
urgent conservation priority in many regions. Understanding which butterfly species migrate …

Summary 1 Movement behaviour has become increasingly important in dispersal ecology
and dispersal is central to the development of spatially explicit population ecology. The ways …

This paper develops a procedure for quantifying movement sequences in terms of move
length and turning angle probability distributions. By assuming that movement is a …

'Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; 2Department of
Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; 3Ecosystems Research Center; …

There is compelling evidence that Aedes aegypti distributes small numbers of eggs among
many sites, and that this “skip oviposition” is a driver for dispersal. The behavior is …

Seasons impose different selection pressures on organisms through contrasting
environmental conditions. How such seasonal evolutionary conflict is resolved in organisms …

The study of weather effects in insect ecology should focus on how physiological and
behavioral characteristics of individual organisms translate into population and community …

The small cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, is a major agricultural pest of cruciferous
crops and has been introduced to every continent except South America and Antarctica as a …

Ecology and evolution unfold in spatially structured communities, where dispersal links
dynamics across scales. Because dispersal is multicausal, identifying general drivers …

The authors review a selection of key references to studies on the disperal and movement of
insect pests that have been published since the review by CG Johnson in 1969. The 3 main …