Insect feeding behaviour is a complex interplay of anatomical specialisation and physiological processes that enable insects to exploit plant tissues for nutrients. A key tool in deciphering these ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

Labandeira, Conrad C. 1997. "Insect mouthparts: ascertaining the paleobiology of insect feeding strategies." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 28 153–193.

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...

Entomological Society of America National Conference (1989 : San Antonio, Tex.) Structure, function, ontogeny, and evolution of feeding in thrips (Thysanoptera) / Bruce S. Heming -- Mouthpart ...