Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Genetics, Relatedness and Social Behaviour in Insect Societies -- 2 Do Insect Sexual Ornaments Demonstrate Heightened Condition Dependence? -- 3 Sperm Competition in Butterflies and Moths -- 4 Alternative Mating Tactics and Fatal Fighting in Male Fig Wasps -- 5 Seasonal Plasticity, Host Plants, and the Origin of Butterfly Biodiversity -- 6 Life Histories and Parasite Pressure Across the Major Groups of Social Insects -- 7 Cascading Effects of Plant Genetic Variation on Herbivore Communities -- 8 The Role of Parasites of Insect Reproduction in the Diversification of Insect Reproductive Processes -- 9 The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry -- 10 Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Host-Parasite Interactions: an Ecological Immunology Perspective -- 11 Adaptive Plasticity in Response to Predators in Dragonfly Larvae and Other Aquatic Insects -- 12 The Peppered Moth: Decline of a Darwinian Disciple -- 13 Insecticide Resistance in the Mosquito Culex pipiens: Towards an Understanding of the Evolution of ace Genes -- 14 Molecular and Ecological Differentiation of Species and Species Interactions Across Large Geographic Regions: California and the Pacific Northwest -- 15 The Genetic Basis of Speciation in a Grasshopper Hybrid Zone -- 16 Assortative Mating and Speciation as Pleiotropic Effects of Ecological Adaptation: Examples in Moths and Butterflies -- 17 Specializations and Host Associations of Social Parasites of Ants -- 18 Evolutionary Changes in Expanding Butterfly Populations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.