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Author(s):  
Sheng Sheng ◽  
Yan Song ◽  
Sheraz Ahmad ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Ying Shao ◽  
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Abstract Parasitoid wasps are key agents for controlling insect pests in integrated pest management programs. Although many studies have revealed that the behavior of parasitic wasps can be influenced by insecticides, the strategies of patch time allocation and oviposition have received less attention. In the present study, we forced the endoparasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis to phoxim exposure at the LC30 and tested the foraging behavior within patches with different densities of the host, the larvae of the tobacco cutworm Spodoptera litura. The results showed that phoxim treatment can significantly increase the patch-leaving tendency of female wasps, while host density had no impact. The number of oviposition and the number of previous patch visits also significantly influenced the patch time allocation decisions. The occurrence of oviposition behavior was negatively affected by phoxim exposure; however, progeny production was similar among patches with different host densities. Phoxim exposure shaped the offspring fitness correlates, including longer durations from cocoon to adult wasps, smaller body size, and shorter longevity. The findings of the present study highlight the sublethal effects that reduce the patch residence time and the fitness of parasitoid offspring, suggesting that the application of phoxim in association with M. pulchricornis should be carefully schemed in agroecosystems.


BioControl ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Heydari ◽  
Hossein Allahyari ◽  
Rodrigo Labouriau ◽  
Azade Zahedi Golpayegani ◽  
Annie Enkegaard

2016 ◽  
Vol 103 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joffrey Moiroux ◽  
Paul K. Abram ◽  
Philippe Louâpre ◽  
Maryse Barrette ◽  
Jacques Brodeur ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1779) ◽  
pp. 20132376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuuki Y. Watanabe ◽  
Motohiro Ito ◽  
Akinori Takahashi

Food is heterogeneously distributed in nature, and understanding how animals search for and exploit food patches is a fundamental challenge in ecology. The classic marginal value theorem (MVT) formulates optimal patch residence time in response to patch quality. The MVT was generally proved in controlled animal experiments; however, owing to the technical difficulties in recording foraging behaviour in the wild, it has been inadequately examined in natural predator–prey systems, especially those in the three-dimensional marine environment. Using animal-borne accelerometers and video cameras, we collected a rare dataset in which the behaviour of a marine predator (penguin) was recorded simultaneously with the capture timings of mobile, patchily distributed prey (krill). We provide qualitative support for the MVT by showing that (i) krill capture rate diminished with time in each dive, as assumed in the MVT, and (ii) dive duration (or patch residence time, controlled for dive depth) increased with short-term, dive-scale krill capture rate, but decreased with long-term, bout-scale krill capture rate, as predicted from the MVT. Our results demonstrate that a single environmental factor (i.e. patch quality) can have opposite effects on animal behaviour depending on the time scale, emphasizing the importance of multi-scale approaches in understanding complex foraging strategies.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin N. Nyabuga ◽  
Wolfgang Völkl ◽  
Ulrich Schwörer ◽  
Wolfgang W. Weisser ◽  
Manfred Mackauer

Oecologia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate R. Searle ◽  
Thea Vandervelde ◽  
N. Thompson Hobbs ◽  
Lisa A. Shipley ◽  
Bruce A. Wunder

Oecologia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 640-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Boivin ◽  
Xavier Fauvergue ◽  
Eric Wajnberg

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