Predator responses to sequestered plant toxins in buckeye caterpillars: are tritrophic interactions locally variable?

• Published in: Journal of chemical ecology Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 2093 - 2106
• Main Author: Camara, M.D. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 01.09.1997; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Butterflies & moths; DEFENCE MECHANISMS; defense mechanisms; DEPREDACION; DIET; DIETA; Flowers & plants; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Herbivores; Host plants; HOST RANGE; HOSTS; HOTE; HUESPEDES; Insects; IRIDOID GLYCOSIDES; IRIDOIDE; IRIDOIDES; IRIDOIDS; JUNONIA; KICKXIA ELATINE; Larvae; Leaves; MECANISME DE DEFENSE; MECANISMOS DE DEFENSA; Natural populations; Natural products; NYMPHALIDAE; Plant species; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; PREDATION; Predators; REGIME ALIMENTAIRE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SEQUESTRATION; Synecology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Toxins; Host parasite relation; Plantago lanceolata; Insecta; Tritrophic system; Formicoidea; Pest; Dicotyledones; Host plant; Angiospermae; Scrophulariaceae; Aculeata; Formicidae; Weed; Formica rufa; Defense; Plantaginaceae; Toxin; Diet; Animal plant relation; Arthropoda; Lepidoptera; Plant origin; Nymphalidae; Spermatophyta; Predation; Hymenoptera; Invertebrata; Arctiidae

Recent studies demonstrate that generalist insect herbivores may be more subject to predation than specialists and suggest that this pattern is related to the availability and utilization of plant-derived natural products in diets of the latter. This intuitively attractive hypothesis has seldom been...