Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, use color, patterns and other visual cues to attract mates or warn potential predators that they ...

A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...

C hemical ecology of insect-plant interactions examines how plants and insects communicate, defend and adapt through specialised compounds. Plants synthesise a vast array of secondary ...