Assessing Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Larval Mortality Caused by the ParasitoidCotesia melanoscela(Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Host Age Effects
作者:
Kevin W. Thorpe,
M. J. Raupp,
T. M. Odell,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 3
页码: 771-775
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1093/ee/19.3.771
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: Insecta;Lymantria dispar;Cotesia melanoscela;parasitism
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Estimates of parasitoid-induced mortality obtained from the rearing or dissection of samples of hosts may underestimate the actual mortality attributable to parasitoids. In this study, the use of appropriate unparasitized control hosts allowed the authors to apply Abbott's formula to estimate total parasitoid-induced mortality. Gypsy moth,Lymantria dispar(L.), larvae at the age of 0, 3, 6, or 9 d were stung by the solitary endoparasitoid,Cotesia melanoscela(Ratzeburg). There were significant curvilinear relationships between host age at the time it was stung and parasitoid emergence and parasitoid-induced nonemergence mortality. Emergence rates were lowest and parasitoid-induced nonemergence mortality rates were highest among hosts stung on days 0 and 9. The negative effect of parasitism on growth rates was greatest among hosts stung on days 6 and 9, and parasitoid development time was longest within hosts stung on days 0 and 9.
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