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Annual Review of Entomology

Volume 62, 2017

Learning in Insect Pollinators and Herbivores

Abstract

The relationship between plants and insects is influenced by insects’ behavioral decisions during foraging and oviposition. In mutualistic pollinators and antagonistic herbivores, past experience (learning) affects such decisions, which ultimately can impact plant fitness. The higher levels of dietary generalism in pollinators than in herbivores may be an explanation for the differences in learning seen between these two groups. Generalist pollinators experience a high level of environmental variation, which we suggest favors associative learning. Larval herbivores employ habituation and sensitization—strategies useful in their less variable environments. Exceptions to these patterns based on habitats, mobility, and life history provide critical tests of current theory. Relevant plant traits should be under selection to be easily learned and remembered in pollinators and difficult to learn in herbivores. Insect learning thereby has the potential to have an important, yet largely unexplored, role in plant-insect coevolution.

Keyword(s): associative learning, aversion learning, habituation, Hopkins host selection principle, sensitization, social learning
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Learning in Insect Pollinators and Herbivores
Annual Review of Entomology 62, 53 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-034903
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