One of the most interesting principles recently developed in economic entomology, if not one of the most far reaching in its application is the host-selecting principle. As defined by Dr. A. D. Hopkins(1) this principle is that an insect “species which breeds in two or more hosts will prefer to continue to breed in the host to which it has become adapted.”
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A. O. Larson (1927) studied this question.