Contemporary trends in Insect Science is a festschrift issue in honour of Prof. S.C. Pathak whom I have known for the past twenty years as a teacher, researcher and mentor. Insects are most numerous of all living species, constituting about 75% of animal world. They have adapted over the evolutionary period of about 250-500 million years in the diverse ecological conditions on the earth. The dominance of insects over other animals and coevolution vis-?-vis other ...
