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A phytophagous insect which can freely move from one place to another must locate a plant before attempting to feed upon it. Stimulated by Professor Gottfried Fraenkel’s historic paper (Fraenkel, 1959), much excellent work has been done on how insects locate hosts and are repelled by non-host species, often through the effects of various allelochemics. Still another aspect is how suitable the plant is to the insect once it has settled down to feed. The chosen plant must be .capable of supporting growth, development and reproduction, if it is to be a suitable host. The feeding insect must ingest food “that not only meets its nutritional requirements, but is also capable of being assimilated and converted into the energy and structural substances required for normal activity and development” (Beck, 1972; Beck and Reese, 1976). This concept, termed insect dietetics by Beck (1972), is thus considerably broader than classical nutrition which deals with specific nutrient requirements of a species.
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Reese, J.C. (1981). Insect Dietetics: Complexities of Plant-Insect Interactions. In: Bhaskaran, G., Friedman, S., Rodriguez, J.G. (eds) Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3210-7_17
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