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Contents VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 1993 Published 13 April 1993 JOHN ALCOCK The effects of male body size on territorial and mating success in the landmark-defending fly Hermetia comstocki (Stratiomyidae) C. M. CLARKE and R. L. KITCHING (see Erratum below) The metazoan food webs from six Bornean Nepenthes species SARAH A. CORBET, M. FUSSELL, R. AKE, A. FRASER, C. GUNSON, A. SAVAGE and K. SMITH Temperature and the pollinating activity of social bees A. E. DOUGLAS The nutritional quality of phloem sap utilized by natural aphid populations JANE K. HILL and A. GAVIN GATEHOUSE Phenotypic plasticity and geographical variation in the pre-reproductive period of Autographa gamma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its implications for migration in this species J. J. BOOMSMA, P. J. WRIGHT and A. H. BROUWER Social structure in the ant Lasius flavus: multi-queen nests or multi-nest mounds? MICHIHIRO ISHIHARA and MASAKAZU SHIMADA Female-biased sex ratio in a wild bruchid seed-predator, Kytorhinus sharpianus. |. Larval competition and other factors R. Kunbu and A. F. G. DIxon Do host alternating aphids know which plant they are on? D. E. PEDGLEY and S. YATHOM Windborne moth migration over the Middle East J. A. THOMAS, G. W. ELMEs and J. C. WARDLAW Contest competition among Maculinea rebeli butterfly larvae in ant nests D. Moss and E. POLLARD Calculation of collated indices of abundance of butterflies based on monitored sites RICHARD H. THOMAS Ecology of body size in Drosophila buzzatii: untangling the effects of temperature and nutrition Short Communications IAN D. HODKINSON and ELAINE HODKINSON Pondering the imponderable: a probability-based approach to estimating insect diversity from repeat faunal samples E. POLLARD, C. A. M. VAN Swaay and T. J. YATES Changes in butterfly numbers in Britain and The Netherlands, 1990-91 Erratum On page 13 the food webs are incorrectly identified: Fig. 1(c) is Nepenthes albomarginata, Fig. 1(d) is Nepenthes rafflesiana, Fig. 1(e) is Nepenthes gracilis, and Fig. 1(f) is Nepenthes mirabilis. iv Contents VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2, MAY 1993 Published 14 June 1993 ANDREW J. CHERRILL and STEPHEN P. RUSHTON The Auchenorhyncha of an unimproved moorland in northern England LEON BLAUSTEIN and BurT P. KOTLER Oviposition habitat selection by the mosquito, Culiseta longiareolata: effects of conspecifics, food and green toad tadpoles 104—108 ROBERT A. CHEKE and JOHNSON HOLT Complex dynamics of desert locust plagues 109-115 MARTIN GIURFA and JOSUE A. NUNEZ Efficient floret inspection by honeybees in capitula of Carduus acanthoides 116-122 JANICE S. EDGERLY, MICHELLE S. WILLEY and Topp P. LIVDAHL The community ecology of Aedes egg hatching: implications for a mosquito invasion 123-128 B. E. FREEMAN and K. ITTYEIPE The natural dynamics of the eulophid parasitoid Melittobia australica 129-140 MASAHITO T. KIMURA and KATSURA BEPPU Climatic adaptations in the Drosophila immigrans species group: seasonal migration and thermal tolerance 141-149 RALPH W. PRESZLER and PETER W. PRICE The influence of Salix leaf abscission on leaf-miner survival and life history 150-154 MOSHE BURSTEIN and DAvID WOOL Gall aphids do not select optimal galling sites (Smynthurodes betae; Pemphigidae) 155-164 Short Communication ERICA FLEISHMAN, JOHN F. BAUGHMAN, ALAN E. LAUNER and PAUL R. EHRLICH The effect of fluorescent pigments on butterfly copulation VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3, AUGUST 1993 Published 31 August 1993 M. W. BROWN Resilience of the natural arthropod community on apple to external disturbance 169-183 C-P. CHEN and V. K. WALKER Increase in cold-shock tolerance by selection of cold resistant lines in Drosophila melanogaster 184-190 G. E. DUFFIELD, R. C. GiBsoNn, P. M. GILHOOLY, A. J. HESSE, C. R. INKLEY, F. S. GILBERT and C. J. BARNARD Choice of flowers by foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera): possible morphological cues 191-197 IAN F. HARVEY and Kitt J. WALSH Fluctuating asymmetry and lifetime mating success are correlated in males of the damselfly Coenagrion puella (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) JEFFREY A. HARVEY, IAN F. HARVEY and Davip J. THOMPSON The effect of superparasitism on development of the solitary parasitoid wasp, Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Contents v GRAHAM J. HOLLOWAY Phenotypic variation in colour pattern and seasonal plasticity in Eristalis hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) 209-217 JAMES D. McIVeR and CONSTANTINE H. TEMPELIS The arthropod predators of ant-mimetic and aposematic prey: a serological analysis 218-222 M. RENSHAW, M. W. SERVICE and M. H. BiIRLEY Density-dependent regulation of Aedes cantans (Diptera: Culicidae) in natural and artificial populations 223-233 PETER E. ScoTT, STEPHEN L. BUCHMANN and MArRy Kay O’ ROURKE Evidence for mutualism between a flower-piercing carpenter bee and ocotillo: use of pollen and nectar by nesting bees 234-240 T. J. RIDSDILL-SMITH Asymmetric competition in cattle dung between two species of Onthophagus dung beetle and the bush fly, Musca vetustissima 241-246 T. F. SEIBERT A nectar-secreting gall wasp and ant mutualism: selection and counter-selection shaping gall wasp phenology, fecundity and persistence A. T. STRATHDEE, J. S. BALE, W. C. BLock, N. R. WeBB, I. D. HODKINSON and S. J. COULSON Extreme adaptive life-cycle in a high arctic aphid, Acyrthosiphon svalbardicum Jose L. YELA and CARLOs M. HERRERA Seasonality and life cycles of woody plant-feeding noctuid moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Mediterranean habitats 259-269 JEFFREY D. WELLS and GREGG HENDERSON Fire ant predation on native and introduced subterranean termites in the laboratory: effect of high soldier number in Coptotermes formosanus 270-274 Short Communication N. COLEGRAVE Does larval competition affect fecundity independently of its effect on adult weight? VOLUME 18, NUMBER 4, NOVEMBER 1993 Published 26 November 1993 B. Bat and S. M. SMITH Effect of host availability on reproduction and survival of the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma minutum 279-286 NAOMI CAPPUCCINO Mutual use of leaf-shelters by lepidopteran larvae on paper birch 287-292 JAMES T. CRONIN and DONALD R. STRONG Superparasitism and mutual interference in the egg parasitoid Anagrus delicatus (Hymenoptera: Myrmaridae) 293-302 SIMON GATES Self and conspecific superparasitism by the solitary parasitoid Antrocephalus pandens 303-309 KEVIN J. GASTON, TIM M. BLACKBURN, PETER M. HAMMOND and NIGEL E. SToRK Relationships between abundance and body size: where do tourists fit? 310-314 D. GOULSON and J. S. Cory Flower constancy and learning in foraging preferences of the green-veined white butterfly Pieris napi KEITH R. Hopper and RICHARD T. ROUSH Mate finding, number released, and the success of biological control introductions vi Contents Mark C. J. LINFIELD, DAVID RAUBENHEIMER, CLIVE HAMBLER and MARTIN R. SPEIGHT Leaf miners on Ochna ciliata (Ochnaceae) growing on Aldabra Atoll: patterns of herbivory in relation to goat browsing and exposure to the sun 332-338 M. HOLYOAK The frequency of detection of density dependence in insect orders 339-347 J. Memmorrt, H. C. J. GODFRAY and B. BOLTON Predation and parasitism in a tropical herbivore community 348-352 DAN T. QUIRING Influence of intra-tree variation in time of budburst of white spruce on herbivory and the behaviour and survivorship of Zeiraphera canadensis 353-364 M. REDFERN and R. A. D. CAMERON Population dynamics of the yew gall midge Taxomyia taxi and its chalcid parasitoids: a 24-year study 365-378 Z.-Q. ZHANG, P.-R. CHEN, K. WANG and X.-Y. WANG Overdispersion of Allothrombium pulvinum larvae (Acari: Trombidiidae) parasitic on Aphis gossypii (Homoptera: Aphididae) in cotton fields 379-384 GADEN S. ROBINSON and KEVIN R. TUCK Diversity and faunistics of small moths (Microlepidoptera) in Bornean rainforest 385-393 Short Communications SOREN NYLIN and NIKLAS JANZ Oviposition preference and larval performance in Polygonia c-album (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): the choice between bad and worse 394-398 TIM M. BLACKBURN, KEVIN J. GASTON and NIGEL E. STORK Temporal dynamics of body size of beetles on oaks: a cautionary tale 399-401