J. van Baaren

TL;DR: Results show that short exposure to an elevated temperature, which is frequently experienced by parasitoids during the summer, resulted in high mortality rates in a parasitoid population and strongly affected the fitness of survivors by drastically reducing reproductive output and triggering a sex-dependent effect on lifespan.

TL;DR: This work proposes an alternative hypothesis where gregarious larvae retain their aggressiveness but are less mobile, and tests this hypothesis with two sympatric and congeneric species of Mymaridae, Anaphe victus and Anaphes listronoti, respectively, which supports the reduced mobility hypothesis.

TL;DR: The results showed that a female-biased sex ratio is allocated to unparasitized hosts in Anaphes victus, and in the presence of parasitized hosts, the second (superparasitizing) female produced a significantly higher sex ratio than the first female but the tertiary sex ratio was not significantly different from the sex ratio produced with unparasant hosts.

TL;DR: Anaphes victus, an egg parasitoid of Listronotus oregonensis, apparently learns to associate external pheromones with the presence of a conspecific in a host and could be adaptive because antennal rejection is faster than sting rejection.

TL;DR: It is argued that predicting the net effect of global change on plant–insect relationships requires a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that modulate the interaction strength between the plants and the insects, rather than on focusing on each partner individually.