Citation:

Miriam Rothschild. 1973. Secondary plant substances and warning coloration in insects. Pages 59-83. In: HF van Emden (editor). Insect-Plant Relationships. Proceedings of a symposium held in Imperial College

16-17 September 1971. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London: Number 6, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 215 pages.

Keywords: list of insects shown to sequester and store plant toxins, historical synopsis, differences in life-styles, selectivity and storage among insects feeding on plants containing cardenolides, aristolochic acids, toxic alkaloids, insects feeding on plants containing cardenolides or other toxic substances and which excrete or metabolize them, but do not store them in their bodies, insects sequestering and storing toxins present in their food-plants, some food-plant patterns of aposematic insects