Color Preference and Associative Color Learning in a Parasitoid Wasp, Ascogaster reticulata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Color Preference and Associative Color Learning in a Parasitoid Wasp, Ascogaster reticulata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
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寄生蜂的颜色偏好和联想颜色学习，Ascogaster reticulata（膜翅目：茧蜂科）
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10.1007/s10905-018-9696-7
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发表时间：
2018
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1
通讯作者：
Kainoh Yooichi
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作者：
Kawamata Risa;Sato Yukie;Suzuki Miki;Kainoh Yooichi
农业害虫的天敌，如拟寄生虫和捕食者，经常使用化学和视觉线索来寻找它们的宿主和猎物，它们可以学习这些线索与宿主和猎物存在之间的联系。网状小翅虫是一种很有前途的生物防虫剂，用于防治茶园内的小翅虫等害虫。尽管之前的研究表明。网纹瓢虫接触茶树产卵时释放的化学物质，并能学习相关的线索，还可以使用视觉线索，尤其是颜色。因此，在本研究中，我们研究了a的先天色彩偏好和联想色彩学习能力。试。当把一张绿色的纸和一张不同颜色的纸（黑色、蓝色、红色或黄色）一起提供给年轻的雌性黄蜂时，雌性黄蜂花在黑色和蓝色纸上的时间更少。然而，经过训练，将黑色或蓝色与寄主卵团的存在联系起来的黄蜂对这些颜色的偏好增加了，而受过红色和黄色训练的黄蜂在偏好上没有变化。我们的研究结果表明。除了化学线索外，网状蜘蛛在寻找宿主的行为中也会使用颜色，并具有学习与宿主存在相关的颜色的能力。
Natural enemies of agricultural pests, such as parasitoids and predators, often use chemical and visual cues in search of their hosts and prey, and they can learn the association between the cues and the host and prey presence. The braconid, egg-larval endoparasitoid waspAscogaster reticulatais a promising biological control agent for tortricid pests, such asAdoxophyes honmai, in tea plantations. Although previous studies revealed thatA. reticulatauses contact chemicals released by tea plants in response to tortricid egg oviposition and that it can learn the associated cues, the diurnal wasp is also expected to use visual cues, especially color. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the innate color preference and associative color learning ability ofA. reticulata. When a green paper and a paper of a different color (black, blue, red or yellow) was offered together to naive females of the wasp, the females spent less time on a black and blue papers. However, wasps trained to associate black or blue with the presence of a host egg-mass showed increased preference for these colors, whereas red- and yellow-trained wasps did not show changes in preference. Our findings indicate thatA. reticulatauses colors, in addition to chemical cues, in host searching behavior and has the ability to learn colors associated with host presence.