Insect herbivores contend with various plant traits that are presumed to function as feeding deterrents. Paradoxically, some specialist insect herbivores might beneWt from some of these plant traits, for example by sequestering plant chemical defenses that herbivores then use as their own defense against natural enemies. Larvae of the butterXy species Battus philenor (L.) (Papilionidae) sequest...

Epoxy resins are used widely as protective coatings, in a wide range of harsh chemical environments. This work explores the influence subtle structural variation both epoxy and amine monomers upon performance cured networks, whether changing molecular geometry, nature chemistry, or mass between cross-linking reactive groups. To achieve this, four industrially relevant (two based on bisphenol A—...