Introductory Chapter Considerations for the Development of a More General Life History Theory. - One Host Plant Variation and Insect Life Histories. - 1 Individual Trees as Heterogeneous Environment: Adaptation to Herbivory or Epigenetic Noise?. - 2 Responses of Black Pineleaf Scales to Host Plant Variability. - 3 Responses of Host Plants in the Speciation of Treehoppers: An Example from the Enchenopa binotata Complex. - Two Population and Species Variation in Life Histories. - 4 Geographic Variation and Behavioral Flexibility in Milkweed Bug life Histories. - 5 Latitudinal Variation in the life Histories of Insects Occupying Disturbed Habitats: A Case Study. - 6 Geographic Variation of the Diapause Response in the European Corn Borer. - 7 Natural Selection and life History Variation: Theory plus Lessons from a Mosquito. - 8 Alternative life History Patterns in Risky Environments: An Example from Lacebugs. - Three Life Histories and Nonequilibrium Populations. - 9 Organization of a Guild of Sap-feeding Insects: Equilibrium vs. Nonequilibrium Coexistence. - 10 The Possibility of Insect Communities without Competition: Hispine Beetles on Heliconia. - 11 What Makes a Good Island Colonist?. - 12 Biogeographic Patterns among Milkweed Insects. Language: English