Silvana Piersanti

May 11, 2024 | analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Paolo Masini |Alimentari e Ambientali |Silvana Piersanti |Dipartimento di Chimica

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article. REFERENCES , , , & (2020). Kinship effects in quasi-social parasitoids II: Co-foundress relatedness and host dangerousness interactively affect host exploitation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130, 642–660. , , , , & (2021). Performance of Sclerodermus brevicornis, a parasitoid of invasive longhorn beetles, when reared on rice moth larvae.

Aug 31, 2023 | resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Silvana Piersanti |Dipartimento di Chimica |Biologia e Biotecnologie |Valerio Saitta

INTRODUCTION In herbivorous insects, the main behaviours affecting fitness, such as feeding, mating, and oviposition, are influenced by plant-related cues (Awmack & Leather, 2002; Carrasco et al., 2015; Städler et al., 2002; Wang et al., 2022). The success of an oligophagous herbivorous insect, in particular, depends on its ability to locate the best host plant, use its nutrients and cope with its defence (Bernays & Chapman, 1994; Fernandez & Hilker, 2007).