Plant - Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects: Protective Mutualism and its Applications. 2013. illus. XII, 356 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Contents: Food for protection: an introduction/ Suitability of (extra-)floral nectar, pollen, and honeydew as insect food sources/ Nectar as fuel for plant protectors/ Fitness consequences of food for protection strategies in plants/ Food needs of adult parasitoids:behavioral adaptations and consequences/ Effects of plant feedingon the performance of 'omnivorous 'predators/ Nectar- and pollen -feeding by adult herbivorous insects/ Impact of plant - provided food on herbivore - carnivore dynamics/ Does floral nectar improve biological control by parasitoids?/ Habitat diversification in biological control: the role of plant resources/ Providing plant foods for natural enemies in farming systems: balancing practicalities and theory.