This book contains the proceedings of the "First International Symposium
on Insect Pheromones," which was held at Wageningen, The Netherlands,
from March 6 to March 11, 1994. Eighty participants from 17 countries
attended the symposium, which turned out to be a unique forum for the
exchange of the latest worldwide findings on insect pheromones, an
opportunity to discuss and debate unsettled issues, and a mechanism to
define new directions in pheromone research and foster interdisciplinary
collaborations. The meeting comprised five sessions representing the
breadth of disciplinary interest in pheromones, a typical charac-
teristic of this research area. In the sessions the following topics
were presented: (1) control of pheromone production (organized by W. L.
Roelofs), (2) sensory processing of pheromone signals (T. L. Payne), (3)
neuroethology of pheromone- mediated responses (T. C. Baker), (4) use of
pheromones in direct control (A. K. Minks and R. T. Card6), and (5)
evolution of pheromone communication (c. LOfstedt). All sessions started
with a series of 30-minute lectures, after which ample time was reserved
for discussion. In each session some participants were asked to serve as
discussants and to initiate and stimulate discussion, and a rapporteur
was recruited to make notes of these discussions and to summarize the
general trends emerging from the session. The general program- ming of
the symposium was in the hands of R. T. Carde, A. K. Minks, and T. L.
Payne.
