"Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society 22nd Symposium held at the University of Reading, UK"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Genetics, relatedness and social behaviour in insect societies / Andrew F.G. Bourke -- Do insect sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition dependence? / Samuel Cotton and Andrew Pomiankowski -- Sperm competition in butterflies and moths / Nina Wedell -- Alternative mating tactics and fatal fighting in male fig wasps / James M. Cook -- Seasonal plasticity, host plants, and the origin of butterfly biodiversity / Sören Nylin, Karl Gotthard and Georg H. Nygren -- Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects / J.J. Boomsma, P. Schmid-Hempel and W.O.H. Hughes -- Cascading effects of plant genetic variation on herbivore communities / Robert S. Fritz and Cris G. Hochwender -- The role of parasites of insect reproduction in the diversification of insect reproductive processes / Gregory D.D. Hurst, K. Mary Webberley and Robert Knell -- The evolution of imperfect mimicry / Francis Gilbert -- Evolutionary ecology of insect host-parasite interactions : an ecological immunology perspective / Kenneth Wilson -- Adaptive plasticity in response to predators in dragonfly larvae and other aquatic insects / Frank Johansson and Robby Stoks -- The peppered moth : decline of a Darwinian disciple / Michael E.N. Majerus -- Insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens : towards an understanding of the evolution of ace genes / M. Weill ... [et al.] -- Molecular and ecological differentiation of species and species interactions across large geographic regions : California and the Pacific Northwest / John N. Thompson and Ryan Calsbeek -- The genetic basis of speciation in a grasshopper hybrid zone / David M. Shuker ... [et al.] -- Assortative mating and speciation as pleiotropic effects of ecological adaptation : examples in moths and butterflies / Chris D. Jiggins, Igor Emelianov and James Mallet -- Specializations and host associations of social parasites of ants / Jeremy A. Thomas, Karsten Schönrogge and Graham W. Elmes -- Evolutionary changes in expanding butterfly populations / Jane K. Hill, Calvin Dytham and Clare L. Hughes.