A context-dependent induction of natal habitat preference in a generalist herbivorous insect

Patrick Lhomme, David Carrasco, Mattias Larsson, Bill Hansson, Peter Anderson and Dan PapajHandling Editor

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 2, 360-367

Abstract: Some herbivorous insects remember their childhood, but they recall only the nice memories! We show in a moth that host-plant odor exposure associated with high-quality food during larval stage induces a preference shift in adults for the experienced plant, whereas no such preference shift was found for odors associated with low-quality food.

Keywords: Hopkins host selection principle; larval experience; Lepidoptera; oviposition preference; phenotypic plasticity; preference induction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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