▪ Abstract Cereals (maize, sorghum, millet, rice) are extremely important crops grown in
Africa for human consumption. Of the various insect pests attacking cereal crops in Africa …

▪ Abstract Honey bee foragers dance to communicate the spatial location of food and other
resources to their nestmates. This remarkable communication system has long served as an …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1075–1083 Abstract Natural enemies respond to herbivore‐
induced plant volatiles (HIPVs), but an often overlooked aspect is that there may be …

This book on the cereal stem borers of Africa consists of 28 chapters, by various authors,
arranged in 4 sections. The 1st section is on economic importance (host plants; maize, West …

Plants subjected to insect attack usually increase volatile emission which attracts natural
enemies and repels further herbivore colonization. Less is known about the capacity of …

Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) is an exotic stemborer of cereal crops in
Africa which invaded the continent from Asia earlier this century. In addition to Ch. partellus …

Tritrophic interactions allow plants to recruit natural enemies for protection against herbivory.
Here we investigated genetic variability in induced responses to stemborer egg-laying in …

Many parasitoid species are subjected to strong selective pressures from their host, and
their adaptive response may result in the formation of genetically differentiated populations …

Abstract Maize (corn), Zea mays, is a genetically diverse crop, and we have recently shown
that certain open pollinated varieties (OPVs) of Latin American origin possess a trait not …

Abstract The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), undertook a
biological control (BC) programme for control of stemborers from 1993 to 2008, to reduce …