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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 10, Pages 1247-1253Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-013-0353-5
Keywords
Wolf spider; Predation; Info-disruption; Glyphosate; Herbicide; Foraging; Agriculture; Anthropogenic influences
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- Miami University
- Department of Zoology
- Hamilton Campus
- National Science Foundation [1156703]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [1156703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Anthropogenic substances have the potential to affect animal behavior either because they present a novel stimulus or because they interfere with natural chemical communication pathways. Such shifts can alter the dynamic between predators and potential prey, which might affect population success as well as the strength of food web linkages. We examined the foraging of two wolf spiders, Tigrosa helluo and Pardosa milvina (Araneae, Lycosidae), that are abundant in agroecosystems where they are routinely exposed to herbicides. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a commercial formulation of a glyphosate-based herbicide would affect the prey capture behavior of these two wolf spiders. We tested the larger Tigrosa foraging on Pardosa or crickets (Acheta domesticus) and the smaller Pardosa foraging on crickets. Tigrosa subdued crickets more quickly and with fewer lunges than it took them to capture Pardosa. The presence of herbicide allowed Tigrosa to orient toward and capture both prey species more quickly but it did not affect the number of lunges required to subdue either prey. Herbicide did not affect the timing of prey capture for Pardosa but it did cause them to use more lunges in the process. Thus, herbicide had contrasting effects on foraging behavior of these two agrobiont predators, which means that it could shift the direction and strength of food web linkages in complex ways.
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