Selected papers from two symposia held in conjunction respectively with the 1978 national meeting of the Entomology Society of America and the Ninth International Congress of Plant Protection in 1979. "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes bibliographies and index.

Semiochemicals, their role with changing approaches to pest control / W. Joe Lewis -- Semiochemicals, a review of the terminology / Donald A. Nordlund -- Chemical mediators between plants and phytophagous insects / Louis M. Schoonhoven -- Habitat location / S. Bradleigh Vinson -- Host location by parasitoids / Ronald M. Weseloh -- Host acceptance by parasitoids / Alfred P. Arthur -- Prey selection / Patrick D. Greany, Kenneth S. Hagen -- Employment of kairomones in the management of parasitoids / Harry R. Gross, Jr. -- Host discrimination by parasitoids / Joop C. van Lenteren -- Epideictic pheromones that influence spacing patterns of phytophagous insects / Ronald J. Prokopy -- Attractive and aggregating pheromones / Wendell L. Roelofs -- Chemistry of semiochemicals involved in parasitoid--host and predator--prey relationships / Richard L. Jones -- Semiochemicals in evolutionary time / Peter W. Price -- Summary of significance and employment strategies for semiochemicals / Robert D. Jackson, W. Joe Lewis.