Publisher's Synopsis
An international group of scholars, including ecologists, entomologists and foresters, have united to explore the life history traits of the Symphyta, or sawflies. Such traits are key factors rendering sawflies major pests of woody plants. The contributors to this volume provide a comprehensive treatment of these pests, their life history characteristics and evolutionary innovations for living on woody plants, and the interactions between pests and woody hosts. As an example of how intimate co-evolutionary patterns may be played out, the sawfly/woody plant relationship may be particularly interesting to forest biologists as well as evolutionary biologists and ecologists.
