Long-Range Host-Finding Behavior and Colonization of Onion Fields by Delia antiqua (Diptera: Anthomyiidae)

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Martinson ◽  
J. P. Nyrop ◽  
C. J. Eckenrode
2008 ◽  
Vol 276 (1657) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Takács ◽  
Hannah Bottomley ◽  
Iisak Andreller ◽  
Tracy Zaradnik ◽  
Joseph Schwarz ◽  
...  

Foraging animals use diverse cues to locate resources. Common foraging cues have visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile or gustatory characteristics. Here, we show a foraging herbivore using infrared (IR) radiation from living plants as a host-finding cue. We present data revealing that (i) conifer cones are warmer and emit more near-, mid- and long-range IR radiation than needles, (ii) cone-feeding western conifer seed bugs, Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hemiptera: Coreidae), possess IR receptive organs and orient towards experimental IR cues, and (iii) occlusion of the insects' IR receptors impairs IR perception. The conifers' cost of attracting cone-feeding insects may be offset by occasional mast seeding resulting in cone crops too large to be effectively exploited by herbivores.


1999 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 766-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Borgemeister ◽  
Kerstin Schäfer ◽  
Georg Goergen ◽  
Symphorien Awande ◽  
Mamoudou Setamou ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana R. Cabrera ◽  
Paul D. Shirk ◽  
Peter E. A. Teal ◽  
Christina M. Grozinger ◽  
Jay D. Evans

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