Effects of Induced Host-plant Mineral Deficiencies on Attraction, Feeding, and Fecundity of the Alligatorweed Flea Beetle12
作者:
D. M. Maddox,
M. Rhyne,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1975)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 5
页码: 682-686
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1975
DOI:10.1093/ee/4.5.682
出版商: Oxford University Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
The hypothesis that host-plant selection by the alticine flea beetle,Agasicles hygrophilaSelman and Vogt, may be influenced by the nutritive properties of alligatorweed was investigated. Alligatorweed deficient in phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium and plants receiving complete nutrition were used to study flea beetle attraction, feeding, and fecundity. Plants receiving complete nutrition were almost always preferred in feeding and fecundity tests to mineral-deficient plants. All responses were significant except fecundity in the minus-magnesium group and a choice test on attraction in the calcium group. The ratio of leaf tissue consumed per egg produced by the female was the same in both control and experimental groups.
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