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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
卷 105, 期 3, 页码 421-425出版社
CZECH ACAD SCI, INST ENTOMOLOGY
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2008.053
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Coccinella septempunctata; Propylea quatuordecimpunctata; Coccinellidae; Coleoptera; Dinocampus coccinellae; Braconidae; Hymenoptera; body size; reproduction; oviposition; prey abundance
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- Grant Agency of Czech Republic [522/08/1300]
- Ministry of Agriculture of Czech Republic [002700603, QG50081]
The hypothesis that small species of aphidophagous coccinellids need lower aphid population densities for reproduction than large species (Dixon, 2007) was tested in the field. In 2006 we compared seasonal changes in the oviposition behaviour of two coccinellid species regularly found in cereal stands in central Europe, the large Coccinella septempunctata L. and the small Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (L.). Adults of both species were collected at 2-3 day intervals from stands of winter wheat and spring barley, females were allowed to deposit eggs for 24 h following collection and the percentage that laid eggs and the number of eggs were recorded. Both species colonized the cereal crop simultaneously in the middle of May. After colonization of the crop, while the aphid density was still low, few females of C. septempunctata oviposited and laid only a few eggs. Oviposition increased Lip to a maximum c. I month later and was closely associated with prey abundance. Of the females of P. quatuordecimpunctata, whose mass is about one quarter of that of the former species, the percentage ovipositing and number of eggs laid varied less ill time and was less associated with prey abundance than ill C. septempunctata. As predicted by theory, the small P. quatuordecimpunctata was more effective at exploiting the lower prey densities as it produced proportionally more of its eggs during the early stages of the aphid infestation than the larger C. septempunctata.
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