Table of Contents

A Brief and Simple Review of Plant and Arthropod Relationships
Sap Suckers
Fruit Eaters
Nectar Eaters
Pollen and Spore Eaters
Floral Feeding
Chewers
Carnivory in Phytophagous Insects
Plant-Feeding Insects and Arthropods of the Geological Past
The Fossil Record
The Plant Kingdom
Plant-Feeding Insects and Arthropods in the Past
The Insects and the Plants in the Past
Life in Amber
Fossil Evidence of Herbivory
Gut
Pollination
Galls and Domatia
Paleomimetism, Homochromy, and Aposematism
An Early 20th Century Classification of Food Plant Selection Among Phytophagous Insects.
The Botanical Sense
Botanical Selection and Bridge Species
Monophagy
Oligophagy
Polyphagy
Pantophagy
Xenogaphy
The Old Clichés
Learning
Plant Resistance to Insects
Relationships Between Insects and Fungi
Parasitic and Saprophytic Fungi
Ectoparasitic Fungi: Laboulbeniales, Endoparasitic Fungi: Trichomycetes or Eccrinids
Special Insect and Fungi Relationships: Cecidomyiids, Ants, Coleoptera, Termites
Physiology of Food Selection
How it Works
Mechanical or Physical Selection
Selection of Feeding Sites
Visual Selection. Chemical Selection (Odor and Taste)
Talking Trees
Carnivorous and Protocarnivorous Plants
Carnivorous Plants
Protocarnivorous Plants
Plants on the Way to Carnivory
Phytotelmata
Conclusions on Carnivorous Plants
Myrmecophilous Plants or Ant-Plants
American, Asian, and African Plants
Theories of Myrmecophily
Acarophytes or Mite Plants
Seed Eating and Seed Dispersal by Ants
Ant Gardens Seed Dispersal by Insects Other than Ants
A Rare Plant-Insect Relationship: The Epizoic Symbiosis
The Galls and Mines
Insect Mimicry and Homochromy in Relation to Plants
Natural Weed Control in the Holartic and Tropics, Using Phytophagous Insects.
Pollination
Coevolution or Not Between Insects and Plants, the Paradigm of Coevolution
A General Review of Insect-Plant Relationships
Some Thoughts About Learning
The Canopy
Epilogue
Glossary
References